Structural Correspondence, Indirect Reference, and Partial Truth: Phlogiston Theory and Newtonian Mechanics     correspondence principle  reference  theoretical terms  scientific realism       font style='font-size:12px;'> 2009/6/18

This paper elaborates on the following correspondence theorem (which has been defended and formally proved elsewhere): if theory T has been empirically successful in a domain of applications A, but wa...

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Topos Theory as a Framework for Partial Truth     Topos theory  category theory  partial truth       font style='font-size:12px;'> 2008/4/21

This paper develops some ideas from previous work (coauthored, mostly with C.J.Isham). In that work, the main proposal is to assign as the value of a physical quantity in quantum theory (or classica...

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