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MORITA EQUIVALENCE

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 July 2016

THOMAS WILLIAM BARRETT  and
HANS HALVORSON
THOMAS WILLIAM BARRETT*
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, Princeton University
HANS HALVORSON*
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, Princeton University
*
*DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRINCETON, NJ, USA E-mail: [email protected]
† DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRINCETON, NJ, USA E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

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.

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The Review of Symbolic Logic , Volume 9 , Issue 3 , September 2016 , pp. 556 - 582
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Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 2016 

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