Structural analogies between physical systems
British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 40 (2):145-154 (1989)
Abstract
Structural analogies between physical laws have received considerable attention from philosospheres of science. This paper, however, focusses on structural analogies between physical systems; this type of analogy plays an important role in the physical and technological sciences. A formal, set-theoretic description of structural analogies between physical systems is presented, and it is shown that a structural analogy between systems does not require a structural analogy with regard to the laws involved, nor conversely.DOI
10.1093/bjps/40.2.145
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