论文标题
关于自我熟悉结构的形而上学的建议。 I.古典物理学
A Proposal for a Metaphysics of Self-Subsisting Structures. I. Classical Physics
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论文摘要
我们为物理学提供了一个新的形而上学框架，该框架在概念上是清晰的，本体论的，简约的，并且在经验上是足够的。该框架依赖于自我提取结构的概念，即一组基本的物理要素，其个性和行为是用纯粹的关系术语描述的，而无需任何背景时空。尽管本体论的基本要素的规范取决于所考虑的特定物理领域（因此容易受到科学进步），但通过理论变化保留了框架的经验成功结构特征。这些自我介绍结构的运动学和动力学是使用纯形动力学的理论框架在技术上实现的，纯形动力学的理论框架根据适当定义的空间的固有几何形状，提供了完全相关的物理描述，称为形状空间。
We present a new metaphysical framework for physics that is conceptually clear, ontologically parsimonious, and empirically adequate. This framework relies on the notion of self-subsisting structure, that is, a set of fundamental physical elements whose individuation and behavior are described in purely relational terms, without any need for a background spacetime. Although the specification of the fundamental elements of the ontology depends on the particular physical domain considered -- and is thus susceptible to scientific progress -- , the empirically successful structural features of the framework are preserved through theory change. The kinematics and dynamics of these self-subsisting structures are technically implemented using the theoretical framework of Pure Shape Dynamics, which provides a completely relational physical description of a system in terms of the intrinsic geometry of a suitably defined space called shape space.
