On Putnam’s Proof of the Impossibility of a Nominalistic Physics

Barrett, Thomas William

doi:10.1007/s10670-020-00340-2

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“…8 We will also assume this syntactical structure-counting criterion for many-sorted theories and employ generalized translations as well. Barrett (2023) has applied his parsimony principle to choose between nominalistic and Platonistic physical theories. He analyzes the requirement of Putnam (1971) that a nominalistic physical theory must interpret standard Platonistic theories.…”

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Mandersian Relationism: Space, Modality, and Equivalence

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Cocco

2023

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Modal relationism is the view that our best physical theories can dispense with substantival space or spacetime in favor of possible configurations of particles. Kenneth Manders argued that the substantivalist conception is equivalent to this Leibnizian conception of space. To do so, Manders provides a translation f from the Newtonian theory T N into the Leibnizian modal relationist account T L . In this paper, we show that the translation does not establish equivalence, since there is no translation g : T L → T N that preserves theoremhood. This seems to show that the modal relationist theory T L is less parsimonious than its substantivalist rival.

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“…Barrett (2023) has applied his parsimony principle to choose between nominalistic and Platonistic physical theories. He analyzes the requirement of Putnam (1971) that a nominalistic physical theory must interpret standard Platonistic theories.…”

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confidence: 99%

Mandersian Relationism: Space, Modality, and Equivalence

Babic¹,

Cocco

2023

Philos. sci.

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On Putnam’s Proof of the Impossibility of a Nominalistic Physics

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Mandersian Relationism: Space, Modality, and Equivalence

Mandersian Relationism: Space, Modality, and Equivalence

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