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33 | James Ladyman on Reality, Metaphysics, and Complexity

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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The Concept of Structural Realism in the Light of General Relativity

The idea of structural realism in the most basic level is to say, well, look, if you loosen up a bit about about reality, you can understand how our theories can be getting things right without getting everything 100% right. So Newtonian mechanics is going to be just as good at predicting the return of comments as it was in the 17th and 18th centuries.

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