id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_okhnfe4wbzbmdfk6j45ncuqg6y James Mattingly The Structure of Scientific Theory Change: Models versus Privileged Formulations* 2005 25 .pdf application/pdf 11757 619 59 earlier and later theories, and that takes due account of the importance of the mathematical models of a theory (the semantic component) and of the various distinct Here one very important approach, loop quantum gravity, proceeds crucially on the basis of treating formulations of the theory as part As actually employed by working scientists, theories admit of a number of alternative linguistic formulations—for example, classical particle mechanics sometimes is given a Lagrangian formulation and some structural features of scientific theories, the semantic conception naive application of the semantic conception tells us we should take particles as features of the world according to quantum field theory. our class of models to include those of quantum field theory on a dynamical spacetime. There is general agreement that the solution space of quantum field theory has certain features, one of which is a natural particle ./cache/work_okhnfe4wbzbmdfk6j45ncuqg6y.pdf ./txt/work_okhnfe4wbzbmdfk6j45ncuqg6y.txt