Philosophy of Biology

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FORMALISATIONS OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY Paul Thompson ...it is [mathematics] which reveals every genuine truth, for it knows ever ...

486 Paul Thompson Consequently, a theory can be formalised in first-order predicate logic with identity, in set theory, in matri ...

Formalisations of Evolutionary Biology 487 claim, correctly I think, that providing semantics via models makes the syntactic for ...

488 Paul Thompson these conceptions in more detail and explore the relationship of each to biological theorising. 1.1 The First- ...

Formalisations of Evolutionary Biology 489 According to this conception of theories, at the core of a theory are a few axioms (f ...

490 Paul Thompson and employed the logical empiricist view of theories. Among philosophers, opinion on the applicability of this ...

Formalisations of Evolutionary Biology 491 important.^12 As an example of a syntactic formalisation of evolutionary theory it fa ...

492 Paul Thompson set of formulae. The force of the requirement that the interpretation be “true” is to demand that the model “s ...

Formalisations of Evolutionary Biology 493 1.2 The Semantic Conception of Scientific Theories The semantic conception is so call ...

494 Paul Thompson tion of informal theories, of which scientific theories are instances. Suppes wrote a number of papers during ...

Formalisations of Evolutionary Biology 495 highly abstract and are far removed from the empirical phenomena to which they will b ...

496 Paul Thompson assertion because it not specified by the theory itself.^18 Justifying the assertion that an isomorphism exist ...

Formalisations of Evolutionary Biology 497 confirmation of a theory consists in establishing that the required isomorphism holds ...

498 Paul Thompson least squares method^23 sufficiently corresponds to the relevant elements of the theory. One of the most strai ...

Formalisations of Evolutionary Biology 499 mathematical entities (numbers, vectors, functions) used to represent states of the s ...