Representation and invariance of scientific structures
axiomaticsentropyfinite automataformal languagesfoundations of mathematicsgrammarshidden variablesinvarianceisomorphic representationlearningmachine learningmeaningmeasurementmodels in scienceparticle mechanicsphilosophical logicphilosophy of scienceprobabilityreversibility of causal processesscientific theoryspace-timesymmetryvisual space
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``I began this book as a young man [\dots]. I finish it [\dots] at the age of 80, Suppes writes in the preface. Here are some key words related to his interests and to this book: logic, model, learning, axiomatics, probability, statistics, randomness, automata, grammars, language, visual space, measurement, perception, robots, utility, brain-wave representation, hidden variables; we add the key words brought to attention by the title of this book: representation, invariance and scientific structures. In all fields related to these concepts, Suppes has provided essential contributions. His results are concerned with fields such as pure mathematics (especially probability theory, geometry and mathematical logic), mathematical psychology, artificial intelligence, philosophical logic, philosophy of science, foundations of mathematics and of physics, mathematical and computational linguistics, mathematical sociology.NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEThe present book goes across all these topics. It is organized in a preface, eight parts, a summary table of representation and invariance theorems by chapter, a list of references, an author index and an index of terms.NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEPart 1, Introduction, gives a general view, explains what is a scientific theory and how to read this book. Part 2, Axiomatic definition of theories, discusses models in science, theories with standard formalization, theories defined by set-theoretical predicates and historical perspectives on the axiomatic method. Part 3, Theory of isomorphic representation, is concerned with various kinds of representation, isomorphism of models, representation theorems, representation of elementary measurement structures, machine representation of partial recursive functions, philosophical views of mental representations. Part 4, Invariance, discusses invariance, symmetry and meaning, invariance of qualitative visual perceptions, invariance in theories of measurement, the lack of invariance of fundamental equations of physical theories and entropy as a complete invariant in ergodic theory. Part 5, Representations of probability, discusses the formal approach, the classical approach, the logical approach and the subjective probability, randomness for finite and for infinite sequences, the propensity representations of probability and pragmatism about probability. Part 6, Representations of space and time, discusses the classical and the relativistic space-time as well as various aspects of the visual space. Part 7, Representations in mechanics, analyses the classical particle mechanics, the representation theorems for hidden variables in quantum mechanics and the weak and strong reversibility of causal processes. Part 8, Representations of language, is concerned with the Chomskian hierarchy of formal languages, the representation theorems for grammars, the stimulus-response representation of finite automata, the representation of linear models of learning by stimulus-sampling models, the robotic machine learning of comprehension grammars for ten languages and the language-brain relation.
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- Quantum mechanics, interference, and the brain
- Using conceptual spaces to exhibit conceptual continuity through scientific theory change
- Meaningfulness and order-invariance: Two fundamental principles for scientific laws
- Physics, inconsistency, and quasi-truth
- Selective realism and the framework/interaction distinction: a taxonomy of fundamental physical theories
- Deriving meaningful scientific laws from abstract, ``gedanken type, axioms: five examples
- Theories: tools versus models
- Rationalizing two-tiered choice functions through conditional choice
- Theory change as dimensional change: conceptual spaces applied to the dynamics of empirical theories
- Where do Bayesian priors come from?
- Optico-mechanical analogy: an axiomatic approach
- Generalizing empirical adequacy. II: Partial structures
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- Extending List's levels
- Effective validity: a generalized logic for stable approximate inference
- Defending the semantic view: what Itô takes
- Objectivity, invariance, and convention. Symmetry in physical science
- Future development of scientific structures closer to experiments: response to F. A. Muller
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- Axiomatization and models of scientific theories
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- A discussion on quantum non-individuality
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- How theories represent
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- Talk about toy models
- Reconstructor: a computer program that uses three-valued logics to represent lack of information in empirical scientific contexts
- Scientific theories as intervening representations
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- Suppes predicate for classes of structures and the notion of transportability
- Foundations of applied mathematics. I
- Models and the dynamics of theory-building in physics. I: Modeling strategies
- Quineanism, noneism and metaphysical equivalence
- The geometry of Otto Selz's natural space
- Three kinds of the Lotka-Volterra model transfer from biology to economics
- De Finetti's theorem in categorical probability
- A structural justification of probabilism: from partition invariance to subjective probability
- The representational semantic conception
- Solomonoff prediction and Occam's razor
- The applicability of mathematics: beyond mapping accounts
- Dynamical phenomena and their models: truth and empirical correctness
- A way to see the interplay between theory and reality with a look at the quantum case
- Applying Ramseyfication to infrared spectroscopy
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- Meaningfulness as a ``principle of theory construction
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- Realism in energy transition processes: an example from Bohmian quantum mechanics
- Informal versus formal mathematics
- Some problems concerning language and physics
- Carnapian structuralism
- What's right with a syntactic approach to theories and models?
- Finitistic and frequentistic approximation of probability measures with or without \(\sigma\)-additivity
- Logical aspects of quantum (non-)individuality
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