Measuring Ontological Simplicity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22109331 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Noël Blas Saenz (0000-0002-3108-5137, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 0 |
| Publication date | 2024-07-18 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ergo an Open Access Journal of Philosophy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2330-4014 • E-ISSN: 2330-4014 |
| Publisher | University of Michigan Library (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.3998/ergo.6165 |
| OpenAlex | W4400768658 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 38 |
Standard approaches to ontological simplicity focus either on the number of things or types a theory posits or on the number of fundamental things or types a theory posits. In this paper, I suggest a ground-theoretic approach that focuses on the number of something else. After getting clear on what this approach amounts to, I motivate it, defend it, and complete it
Epistemology · Simplicity · Computer Science · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science · Philosophy and Theoretical Science · Semantic Web and Ontologies
The Structure of the World
Making Things Up
A World of States of Affairs
A Combinatorial Theory of Possibility
Ockham's Razors
To Be is to be a Value of a Variable (or to be Some Values of Some Variables)
Grounding and Necessity
Against Grounding Necessitarianism
Grounding
What Not to Multiply Without Necessity
The Razor and the Laser
Why Ockham’s Razor should be preferred to the Laser
There is no reason to replace the Razor with the Laser
Special sciences (or
Ideological parsimony
Concepts, Theories, and the Mind-Body Problem
Quantitative Parsimony and the Metaphysics of Time
Do Not Revise Ockham's Razor Without Necessity
Mental Causation
Quantitative Parsimony
Quantitative Parsimony
When Is Parsimony a Virtue
On the Consistency of Jeffreys's Simplicity Postulate, and Its Role in Bayesian Inference
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |