论文标题
关于经验等价和二元性
On Empirical Equivalence and Duality
论文作者
论文摘要
我认为，在明智地阅读两个现有标准（一个句法和其他语义的标准）中，可以将其视为经验上等效的理论。明智的阅读很简单，但得出令人惊讶的结论，即看起来非常不同的理论可以具有等效的经验内容。因此，它表明了如何通过现有的经验等效性叙述的那种未知的特征来理解一种普遍的科学实践，即将双重二元解释为经验上等效。
I argue that, on a judicious reading of two existing criteria--one syntactic and the other semantic--dual theories can be taken to be empirically equivalent. The judicious reading is straightforward, but leads to the surprising conclusion that very different-looking theories can have equivalent empirical content. And thus it shows how a widespread scientific practice, of interpreting duals as empirically equivalent, can be understood by a thus-far unnoticed feature of existing accounts of empirical equivalence.
