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No-go theorems: What are they good for?
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A ( IF 1 ) Pub Date : 2021-02-02 , DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2021.01.005
Radin Dardashti 1
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No-go theorems have played an important role in the development and assessment of scientific theories. They have stopped whole research programmes and have given rise to strong ontological commitments. Given the importance they obviously have had in physics and philosophy of physics and the huge amount of literature on the consequences of specific no-go theorems, there has been relatively little attention to the more abstract assessment of no-go theorems as a tool in theory development. We will here provide this abstract assessment of no-go theorems and conclude that the methodological implications one may draw from no-go theorems are in disagreement with the implications that have often been drawn from them in the history of science.



中文翻译:

禁止定理:它们有什么用?

不通过定理在科学理论的发展和评估中发挥了重要作用。他们已经停止了整个研究计划,并产生了强烈的本体论承诺。鉴于它们显然在物理学和物理学哲学中的重要性以及关于特定禁止定理后果的大量文献,相对较少关注对禁止定理作为理论工具的更抽象评估发展。我们将在这里提供对禁止定理的抽象评估,并得出结论,人们可能从禁止定理中得出的方法论含义与科学史上经常从中得出的含义不一致。

更新日期:2021-02-02
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