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The structure of theories in the natural sciences

Thomas M. Seebohm

pp. 183-254

The problem of the application of mathematical formalisms in the natural sciences: historical and phenomenological preliminaries; the generation of mathematical formalisms, their application in the natural sciences, and their foundations in the lifeworld; the ontological interpretation of classical physics; the difficulties of ontological interpretations of the mathematical formalism in post-classical physics; and the empirical basis and the status of theories in the life sciences.

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-13587-8_8

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Seebohm, T.M. (2015). The structure of theories in the natural sciences, in History as a science and the system of the sciences, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 183-254.

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