Applying Ramseyfication to Infrared Spectroscopy

Author:

Toppel MichaelORCID

Abstract

AbstractThe so-called Ramsey–Carnap approach, or Ramseyfication, has gone out of fashion in the philosophy of science. Advocates have tried to argue for a revival by writing methodological and metatheoretical studies of Ramseyfication. For this paper I have chosen a different approach; I will apply Ramseyfication to infrared spectroscopy—a method used in analytical chemistry—in order to logically analyse the relation between measurements and mathematical structures. My aim in doing so is to contribute to the debate about the Application Problem of Mathematics, thereby making a case for Ramseyfication as a method of study for scientific theories.

Funder

University of Vienna

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Subject

Logic,Philosophy

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