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<journal-id>0011-1503</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Crítica (México, D.F.)]]></journal-title>
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<publisher-name><![CDATA[Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas]]></publisher-name>
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<article-id>S0011-15032020000300059</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22201/iifs.18704905e.2020.1223</article-id>
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<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[An Inferential Account on Theoretical Concepts in Physics]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[Una perspectiva inferencial sobre conceptos teóricos en física]]></article-title>
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<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Anta]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Javier]]></given-names>
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<institution><![CDATA[,Universitat de Barcelona  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
<country>Spain</country>
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<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>00</month>
<year>2020</year>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>00</month>
<year>2020</year>
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<volume>52</volume>
<numero>156</numero>
<fpage>59</fpage>
<lpage>85</lpage>
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<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S0011-15032020000300059&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S0011-15032020000300059&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S0011-15032020000300059&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[SUMMARY In this paper we develop an inferential account on the meaning and reference of theoretical concepts in physics, mainly based on the pragmatic notion of &#8216;inferential validity&#8217;. Firstly, we distinguish between empirical meaningfulness and theoretical significance as two different modes of meaning, wherein the former depends on consistently encoding experimental values, as proposed by Chang (2004), and the latter on being semantically coherent with other concepts. Secondly, we argue that each of these contributions to the validity of inferences imports a causal and representational mechanism of reference-fixing, respectively. Finally, we will rely on entropy concepts as our case study.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[RESUMEN En este artículo desarrollaré una propuesta inferencial acerca del sentido y referencia de conceptos en física, basada principalmente en la noción pragmática de &#8220;validez inferencial&#8221;. Primero, distinguiremos entre sentido empírico y significado teórico como dos modalidades diferentes del sentido, donde el primero depende de la codificación consistente de valores experimentales, en la línea de Chang (2004), y el segundo en la coherencia semántica con otros conceptos. Además, argumentaremos que estas distintas contribuciones a la validez de las inferencias conllevan mecanismos de fijación referencial causales y representacionales-descriptivos, respectivamente. Finalmente, nos basaremos en los conceptos de entropía como caso de estudio de nuestra propuesta.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[termofísica]]></kwd>
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