MORITA EQUIVALENCE

Logicians and philosophers of science have proposed various formal criteria for theoretical equivalence. In this paper, we examine two such proposals: definitional equivalence and categorical equivalence. In order to show precisely how these two well-known criteria are related to one another, we inv...

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Published in:The review of symbolic logic 2016-09, Vol.9 (3), p.556-582
Main Authors: BARRETT, THOMAS WILLIAM, HALVORSON, HANS
Format: Article
Language:English
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Equivalence
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Summary:Logicians and philosophers of science have proposed various formal criteria for theoretical equivalence. In this paper, we examine two such proposals: definitional equivalence and categorical equivalence. In order to show precisely how these two well-known criteria are related to one another, we investigate an intermediate criterion called Morita equivalence.
ISSN:1755-0203
1755-0211
DOI:10.1017/S1755020316000186