Structural correspondence, indirect reference, and partial truth: phlogiston theory and Newtonian mechanics
Structural correspondence, indirect reference, and partial truth: phlogiston theory and Newtonian mechanics
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结构对应、间接引用和部分真实：燃素理论和牛顿力学
DOI：
10.1007/s11229-009-9608-7
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发表时间：
2011
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1.5
通讯作者：
G. Schurz
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作者：
G. Schurz
本文详细阐述了下列对应定理（已在其他地方得到辩护和正式证明）：如果理论T在应用领域A中经验上是成功的，但后来被在A中同样成功的不同理论T* 所取代，然后在自然条件下T包含理论表达式$${\varphi}$$这是负责T的成功和相应的（在A中）T* 的某些理论表达式。我用燃素与氧的燃烧理论，以及经典与相对论的质量理论来说明这个定理。从间接指称和部分真值的角度给出了该定理的本体论推论。最后一节解释了对应定理如何在不预设无奇迹论证的情况下证明科学实在论的弱版本。
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and formally proved elsewhere): if theory T has been empirically successful in a domain of applications A, but was superseded later on by a different theory T* which was likewise successful in A, then under natural conditions T contains theoretical expressions $${\varphi}$$ which were responsible for T’s success and correspond (in A) to certain theoretical expressions $${\varphi}^{*}$$ of T*. I illustrate this theorem at hand of the phlogiston versus oxygen theories of combustion, and the classical versus relativistic theories of mass. The ontological consequences of the theorem are worked out in terms of the indirect reference and partial truth. The final section explains how the correspondence theorem may justify a weak version of scientific realism without presupposing the no-miracles argument.
当经验的成功意味着理论参考时：结构对应定理
DOI：
10.1093/bjps/axn049
发表时间：
2009
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The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
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作者：
Schurz
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Schurz