Equivalent descriptions

Felix Mühlhölzer

pp. 77-97

in: Wolfgang Spohn (ed), Erkenntnis orientated, Berlin, Springer, 1991

Abstract

In this essay I examine the conceptions of empirical and theoretical equivalence developed by Reichenbach and Quine. I shall show that they fail to do justice to important structural facts of the world and to the status of mathematical knowledge within science.

Cited authors

Quine Willard Van Orman