Ontologically Significant Aggregation: Process Structural Realism (PSR)

Abstract

Philosophical discussions of what sorts of things exist (ontology)1 now recognize that many types of entities that played important roles in the science of earlier historical periods in fact never existed. This raises the troubling suggestion that some (perhaps many) of the entities invoked by present-day scientists may also be figments. John

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