Shared structure need not be shared set-structure

DOI10.1007/S11229-006-9047-7MaRDI QIDQ2460175zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Elaine Landry

Publication date 14 November 2007

Published in Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-006-9047-7

zbMATH Keywords

Bourbaki structuralismmathematical applicabilityscientific structuralismsemantic view of scientific theoriesshared structurestructural realismSuppes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophy of mathematics (00A30) Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05) Logic in the philosophy of science (03A10) General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05)

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