Physics and Chance¶
Sklar, L. (1993). Physics and Chance: Philosophical Issues in the Foundations of Statistical Mechanics. Cambridge University Press.
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- Correspondence Principle
- The working correspondence principle is thus better understood as a norm for post-Copernican physics than as a universal feature of theory change, and it applies most cleanly when the older theory's predictions are numerically accurate within their tested domain.
This sourceTreats the reduction of thermodynamics to statistical mechanics and the limits of inter-theoretic reduction; broadly supports the 'limits of correspondence' theme of T4 but does NOT itself discuss the caloric/phlogiston/epicycle examples or the Kuhn/Feyerabend 'theory abandonment' argument the marker attributes to it.
- The working correspondence principle is thus better understood as a norm for post-Copernican physics than as a universal feature of theory change, and it applies most cleanly when the older theory's predictions are numerically accurate within their tested domain.
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