id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_gxd2gghy4nh2pp5aah7mw4qwla Matteo Morganti Is There a Compelling Argument for Ontic Structural Realism? 2011 12 .pdf application/pdf 5351 393 56 Structural realism first emerged as an epistemological thesis aimed to avoid the socalled pessimistic metainduction on the history of science. Epistemic structural realism (ESR; Worrall 1989) intends this as an epistemological position, to the effect that we can be realists about whatever that ESR is a stronger claim than OSR on the basis that it requires commitment both to structure—that is, relations—and to individuals (possibly, think is suggested by the fact that in the extant formulations of the argument under consideration, OSRists just state that there are different object-based accounts of the particles' nature and do not engage a critical however, appears quite clear: both the individuality and the nonindividuality views are based on objects and monadic properties (possessed by should reconceptualize the quantum domain in terms of physical structures as primitives, from which objects 'emerge' as relational 'nodes' In fact, Muller argues, the 'discovery' that quantum particles are relationals is very good news for the OSRist. ./cache/work_gxd2gghy4nh2pp5aah7mw4qwla.pdf ./txt/work_gxd2gghy4nh2pp5aah7mw4qwla.txt