tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4987609114415205593.post3307199117487861685..comments2024-03-28T07:29:53.593+00:00Comments on M-Phi: Eliminating RelataJeffrey Ketlandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01753975411670884721noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4987609114415205593.post-63432163389781315572012-07-20T10:19:58.300+01:002012-07-20T10:19:58.300+01:00Dear Jeff,
Thanks for this, and greetings from Sp...Dear Jeff,<br /><br />Thanks for this, and greetings from Spain.<br /><br />you are right and the thing is just that the ontic structuralists are wrong ;)<br /><br />I would have no problem with what you are saying but still would like to affirm that, by using the Sneed-Stegmüller conceptual apparatus, one can obtain non-trivial information about intertheoretical relations and in general, the logical structure of our empirical theories. That means, it is useful for carrying out case studies, and of course there is no way of combining this in some sense with ontic structuralism. <br /><br />Anyway, all best and see you soon,<br /><br />ThomasThomas Meierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01984073295545369074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4987609114415205593.post-69739770732114635522012-07-18T03:25:24.713+01:002012-07-18T03:25:24.713+01:00Ah, great, many thanks, Aldo!
(I'm getting old...Ah, great, many thanks, Aldo!<br />(I'm getting old - I think I used to know this, in the 90s, but I'd forgotten.)<br />I'll do an update. I just looked at a couple of online things about and it's more complicated than I describe - I guess because of the ordinals involved with infinitary syntax.<br />Something similar is mentioned in a 2006 paper by Oliver Pooley about spacetime structuralism. <br /><br />So, on this view, an abstract structure for a structured set is the proposition expressed by its Scott sentence. That would bring ontic structuralism back to propositions (and linguistic entities) which wouldn't be what they want.<br /><br />And yes, good idea - I'll try and find out about how to make an RSS feed.Jeffrey Ketlandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01753975411670884721noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4987609114415205593.post-53000417477937693892012-07-18T01:42:40.467+01:002012-07-18T01:42:40.467+01:00Jeffrey, thanks for this. I think the idea of cons...Jeffrey, thanks for this. I think the idea of constructing an infinitary sentence characterizing a structure up to isomorphism was originally due to Dana Scott, and in fact it's often called Scott's sentence. <br /><br />Off topic question (I don't know who the main admin for the site is): would it be possible to have an RSS feed to the posts?Aldo Antonellihttp://aldo-antonelli.orgnoreply@blogger.com