Deductive Reasoning in the Structuralist Approach

Taming conceptual wanderings: Wilson-Structuralism

“…545-552), asymptotic connections between patches (Batterman 2001;Wilson 2017), and Machian explications (Wilson 2012a;Carus 2012). Other promising ways of extending this framework would be to add linguistic and pragmatic contexts in order to model also Wilson's context-adjusting models of predicate extension (Wilson 1982(Wilson , 2012b or to merge Wilson-Structuralism with Carnapian Structuralism (Andreas 2014(Andreas , 2020 and with accounts of deductive reasoning in structuralist frameworks (Andreas 2013) in order to model Wilson's contextual notion of inference validity and logical inconsistencies (Wilson 1994(Wilson , 2000. It would also be interesting to merge Wilson-Structuralism with other reconstructions of scientific theories devised to capture the indeterminacy of theoretical terms such as Carnap's -term methodology (Carnap 1956;Schiemer and Gratzl 2016;Leitgeb and Carus 2020;Leitgeb MS).…”

“…This mapping is justified by noting that Wilson's patches are equipped with a variety of reasoning tools that encompasses also the kind of physical and conceptual requirements on scientific terms that are framed by the structuralists as constraints on the related theory-element. Moreover, it has been recently shown how more paradigmatic reasoning tools such as deductive inferences can be represented in the structuralist framework as constraints on the acceptable combinations of potential models of a theory-element (Andreas 2013). Finally, a patch translation-principles, i.e.…”