In the context of effective field theories, the autonomy at issue is the autonomy of a large-scale, low-energy, theory (such as QED) relative to a sma...
Indeed. We can also observe that Islamic states kill people who simply are deemed to be enemy of the state, regardless of religious motive, and also t...
I wonder if other users experienced this. When I select some portion of a message that I want to reply to, there appears a floating button labelled "Q...
I remember either Timothy Williamson or Scott Soames (or maybe both) making this exact same methodological recommendation. David Wiggins also sometime...
Your example then would be an example of a counterfactual conditional statement used to specify what it is for individuals of a specific kind (e.g. hu...
What I said about broad theories, as opposed to individual laws, is also true of wide areas of inquiry. The explanation of the properties of acids and...
No, it doesn't entail that. The autonomy of whole theories almost always is merely partial, since broad theories encompass both emergent laws and redu...
Hmmm... I would hope that that an ideal community of investigators would end up not merely producing a final theory that encompasses all the early the...
This is a bit tricky because the truth of this sentence seems to entail the position Micheal Ayers labeled actualism (in his brilliant The Refutation ...
OK, but I think the OP meant discuss a semantical problem that is raised specifically by subjunctive conditionals that have a false antecedent -- that...
I wonder how Unitary Quantum Mechanics deals with the semantics of counterfactual conditional statements that have counterlegal antecedents. (e.g. If ...
It seems to me that some authors use the phrase "counterfactual conditional" to mean the same as "subjunctive conditional", but it also occurs frequen...
There are many ways to translate statements about occurrences governed by real laws (either deterministic or probabilistic) conceived to be governing ...
Yes. The deflationary theorist then would seem to be faced with the same problem that the correspondence theorist was faced with, as andrew4handel exp...
I think the main point of the deflationary theories of truth is negative. It is to show that meaningful uses of the "...is true" predicate in natural ...
Well, lets say that it is post-critical in the Kantian sense, and not reliant on anything as crude as naive realism. Many deflationary theorists may o...
I don't think you meant to say "makes the sentence white", but rather "makes the sentence true". Indeed, the deflationary theorists also have to disch...
This is very similar the the suggestion that I made though it appeals to a conception of laws that rests on a metaphysics of events and Humean causati...
The deflationary truth theorists make claims that sound very much like the things correspondence theorists say, but they chip away some of the metaphy...
Maybe one the main problems afflicting the correspondence theory of truth is the way in which it seems to presuppose a form of uncritical metaphysical...
I did not suggest that they were approximations, though some undoubtedly are. For a law not to apply universally need not entail that there must exist...
Maybe you and I are, but Weinberg isn't. He takes his observation about the apparent convergence of the arrows of explanation produced by science to f...
Fair enough. But you can also fail to converge. Weinberg believes it to be an empirical fact (regarding the history of science) that actual arrows of ...
If the explanation were complete (which I may assume it to be, for the sake of the argument), then the term that I would use is "reductive explanation...
They must converge towards a single point, according to Weinberg. They must converge towards the "final theory", somewhere underneath both the Standar...
Why not indeed! But the pluralist/emergentist admits readily of them. Remember Ernst Mayr on "analysis"? For one merely to be admitting of the existen...
For sure. It's Weinberg who would object to this, not me. He can't admit of his "arrows of explanation" pointing "sideways" to autonomous laws rather ...
I never said anything about the autonomy of "frameworks". I argued that some theories are non-reducible when they explain some emergent phenomena and ...
That's true, for sure. But, in addition to this, many of the laws of chemistry are valid only for some specific classes of bounded chemical systems (a...
Yes, and so? QED may have a wide range of applications and a large domain of validity. This has nothing to do with the question whether or not it migh...
I don't recall using the phrase "high level structures" (though that might aptly characterize the objects and properties directly being governed by th...
This binary question is much too crude. There are specific laws of chemistry that are autonomous with respect to the laws that govern simple molecular...
Yes, sure. The photon's being massless is a requirement for QED being renormalisable. (I didn't remember that, by the way. I Googled it). What's your ...
I can't say. Your first sentence is too vague. Maybe you could phrase it more precisely and explain the relevance of your question to what we've been ...
It's rather misleading to call it an alternative to QED when QED can be logically derived from it. It would be better to say that it's a more determin...
By the way, I just found out that Karen Crowther recently published a book: Effective Spacetime: Understanding Emergence in Effective Field Theory and...
I'm not sure what the difficulty is. There are parameters of the electroweak theory (EWT, for short) that can only be determined empirically through p...
No, QED is not part of the relevant equivalence class. You are still badly misconstruing what I said. Are you really incapable of reading a whole sent...
The set of theories that I mentioned are singled out as being part of the relevant equivalence class. It was meant as a definition of this equivalence...
He was plumper on the earlier coins in the series and thinner on the later ones. There were no automated coin press machines at the time; and Gautama ...
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