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<journal-meta>
<journal-id>0011-1503</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Crítica (México, D.F.)]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Crítica (Méx., D.F.)]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>0011-1503</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas]]></publisher-name>
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<article-id>S0011-15032021000300045</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22201/iifs.18704905e.2021.1293</article-id>
<title-group>
<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[Calculation, bookkeeping, representation, and explanation: a parable]]></article-title>
</title-group>
<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Maudlin]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Tim]]></given-names>
</name>
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<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,New York University Department of Philosophy ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
<country>USA</country>
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<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>00</month>
<year>2021</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>00</month>
<year>2021</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>53</volume>
<numero>159</numero>
<fpage>45</fpage>
<lpage>71</lpage>
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<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S0011-15032021000300045&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S0011-15032021000300045&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S0011-15032021000300045&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Summary Our topic is a basic discussion of what it is to regard a bit of mathematics as referring to something physical, and the different options one has for explaining -and hence rendering non-miraculous- the empirical success of a mathematical formalism. In order to strip away as much extraneous distraction as possible, we will leave the particular case of the wavefunction in quantum theory aside and tell a simpler tale. A fairy tale, in fact. The aim is to foreground some possible relations between a mathematical formalism and the physical system it is used to represent.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Resumen Nuestro tema es una discusión básica de lo que es considerar que una porción de matemáticas se refiera a algo físico y las diferentes opciones que uno tiene para explicar -y por lo tanto hacer que no sea milagroso- el éxito empírico de un formalismo matemático. Para eliminar tanta distracción externa como sea posible, dejaremos a un lado el caso de la función de onda en la teoría cuántica y contaremos una historia más simple. Un cuento de hadas, de hecho. El objetivo es poner en primer plano algunas posibles relaciones entre un formalismo matemático y el sistema físico al que representamos con el formalismo.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[wavefunction]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[ontology]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[mathematics]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[quantum]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[theory]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[función de onda]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[ontología]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[matemáticas]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[cuántica]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[teoría]]></kwd>
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