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Self-Assembling Systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

Abstract

Starting with the view that methodological constraints depend upon the nature of the system investigated, a tripartite division between theoretical, semitheoretical, and empirical discoveries is made. Many nanosystems can only be investigated semitheoretically or empirically, and this aspect leads to some nanophenomena being weakly emergent. Self-assembling systems are used as an example, their existence suggesting that the class of systems that is not Kim-reducible may be quite large.

Type
Simulation, Instrumentation, and Representation at the Nanoscale
Copyright
Copyright © The Philosophy of Science Association

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