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Newman objection: a standalone construct

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Philosophy of science

argument that knowing only the abstract structure of the world is trivial, since any collection of the right size can bear that structure.

In philosophy of science, Newman objection refers to argument that knowing only the abstract structure of the world is trivial, since any collection of the right size can bear that structure. This meaning comes from Newman (1928) in Mind.[1]

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Newman, M. H. A. (1928). I.: mr. Russell's “causal Theory of Perception”. Mind, XXXVII(146), 137-148. https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/xxxvii.146.137

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