id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_pjp2ynnftfc6fbpuzfqk7el4ta Kerry McKenzie On the Fundamentality of Symmetries 2014 11 .pdf application/pdf 5864 262 54 to say symmetries are more ontologically fundamental than elementary particles, and then Our investigation into priority in particle physics will begin by thinking about how symmetries stand to particles in terms of supervenience; from there, we will consider the situation For concreteness, let us focus on the symmetry groups involved in the Standard Model (clearly an appropriate choice, given the question at hand). above – we cannot in general claim that symmetries are more ontologically fundamental than particles. algebras are the norm in particle physics, we can only conclude that if we conceptualise priority in supervenience terms then the ontological priority of symmetry is pretty much dead in an ontological dependence of particles on symmetries will be automatically generated. ontological dependence, then, rather than symmetries being more fundamental than particles we may say that symmetries may be regarded as more fundamental than elementary particles ./cache/work_pjp2ynnftfc6fbpuzfqk7el4ta.pdf ./txt/work_pjp2ynnftfc6fbpuzfqk7el4ta.txt