Thanks, this seems interesting. It is pretty radical; he is very insistent on the idea that for all ‘quantities’ about which we want to reason there must some operational procedure we can follow in order to find out what it is. I don’t know what this means for the ontological status of physical principles, models, etc, but I can at least see the naive appeal… it makes it hard to understand why a model could ever have the power to predict new things we have never seen before though, like Higgs bosons...
Thanks, this seems interesting. It is pretty radical; he is very insistent on the idea that for all ‘quantities’ about which we want to reason there must some operational procedure we can follow in order to find out what it is. I don’t know what this means for the ontological status of physical principles, models, etc, but I can at least see the naive appeal… it makes it hard to understand why a model could ever have the power to predict new things we have never seen before though, like Higgs bosons...