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The importance of being Weyl

Hermann Weyl: Philosophy of mathematics and natural science. With a new introduction by Frank Wilczek, Princeton University Press, 2009, 336 pp, $35.00

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  1. See van Fraassen (2008, 208) and Ladyman and Ross (2007, 100) cf. the criticism of structural realism by Psillos (2001), who, by referring to the “‘Helmholtz-Weyl’ principle”, rightly points to its neo-Kantian Helmholtzian pedigree.

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Ryckman, T. The importance of being Weyl. Metascience 20, 75–79 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-010-9414-3

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