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structural realism: a standalone construct

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Philosophy of science

the position that science reliably captures the mathematical structure of the world even when its claims about underlying entities change.

In philosophy of science, structural realism refers to the position that science reliably captures the mathematical structure of the world even when its claims about underlying entities change. This meaning comes from Worrall (1989) in Dialectica.[1]

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  1. Worrall, J. (1989). Structural Realism: The Best of Both Worlds? Dialectica, 43(1/2), 99-124. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1746-8361.1989.tb00933.x

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