Sr. Realista estructural, tenemos un problema: la carga ontológica de las matemáticas

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The aim of this note is to undermine structural realism by testing the soundness of its main claim. If scientific theories represent the structure of the world, structural realism needs a general account of representation. Representation is the crux of structural realism, because structure/ontology distinction collapses. Mathematical structures are ontologyladen.

Keywords

• Structural realism
• scientific representation
• structure/ontology distinction
• quantum theory
• matrix and wave mechanics