Structure as abstraction
(2016)
Journal Article
Hendry, R. (2016). Structure as abstraction. Philosophy of Science, 83(5), 1070-1081. https://doi.org/10.1086/687939
In this article I argue that structure in chemistry is a creature of abstraction: attending selectively to structural similarities, we neglect differences. There are different ways to abstract, so abstraction is interest dependent. So is structure. F... Read More about Structure as abstraction.