Journal of the Japan Association for Philosophy of Science
Online ISSN : 1884-1236
Print ISSN : 0022-7668
ISSN-L : 0022-7668
The Plausibility of Ontic Structural Realism
Rei NOUCHI
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2009 Volume 37 Issue 1 Pages 9-18

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Scientific realists are pressed to reply against the critical argument from the anti-realist, pessimistic induction. One of the promising positions for them is that of ontic structural realism. This position claims that scientific theories are true of world structure and we must ontologically commit ourselves not to theoretical entities but only to such structures, totally eliminating the former. This elimination of relata, with the admission of relations has subjected it to a barrage of criticism. In this paper, I survey the debates about ontic structural realism and examine where its defects, if any, lie.
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