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Methexis, Mimesis and Self Duality: Theoretical Physics as Formal Systems

in Versus n. 118, Semiotica e matematiche/Semiotics and Mathematics, pp.119-140

Abstract

The naive idea of a mimesis between theory and experiments, a concept still lasing in many epistemologies, is here substituted
by a more sophisticated mathematical methexis where theoretical physics is a system of production of formal structures under strong
mathematical constraints, such as global and local symmetries.
Instead of an ultimate “everything theory”, the image of physical theories here proposed is a totality of interconnected structures
establishing the very conditions of its “thinkability” and the relations with the experimental domain.