id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_jbghm2evgresfd2b3hlx43vtoy David Glick Generalism and the Metaphysics of Ontic Structural Realism 2018 21 .pdf application/pdf 9857 663 55 given in terms of individuals bearing properties, but rather, general facts about which Structural realism in the philosophy of science maintains that our best scientific theories tell the world is not given in terms of individuals bearing properties, but rather, general facts version of structural realism, OSR requires making a concession to the antirealist; much OSR draws motivation from two main paths: the problem of theory change in the philosophy Instead of telling us what individuals there are and how they're propertied, generalism provides a qualitative description of the entire situation—only its structure, one might by Dasgupta's claim that there are no (facts about) individuals grounding general states In the above, it was assumed that OSR seeks to replace the default "objects bearing properties" view with a rival metaphysical account that consists of only structure. meta-metaphysical view, by contrast, allows for OSR to explain permutation invariance in ./cache/work_jbghm2evgresfd2b3hlx43vtoy.pdf ./txt/work_jbghm2evgresfd2b3hlx43vtoy.txt