Infinitesimal idealization, easy road nominalism, and fractional quantum statistics
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instance of: scholarly article
title: Infinitesimal idealization, easy road nominalism, and fractional quantum statistics
zbMATH Open document ID: 1474.81004
author: Elay Shech
published in: Synthese
publication date: 2021-11-26T00:00:00Z
full work available at URL: Infinite idealizations, Easy Road Nominalism, and Fractional Quantum Statistics PREPRINT.pdf
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 81P05
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 81S20
zbMATH DE Number: 7434268
zbMATH Keywords: idealization
zbMATH Keywords: approximation
zbMATH Keywords: easy road nominalism
zbMATH Keywords: mathematical explanation
zbMATH Keywords: indispensability argument
zbMATH Keywords: anyons
zbMATH Keywords: fractional quantum statistics
MaRDI profile type: Publication
OpenAlex ID: W2782398345
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DOI: 10.1007/S11229-018-1680-4
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 7434268