Structuralism & the a priori (contd.)

Name: Structuralism & the a priori (contd.)
Start: 2005
Location: Structuralism in Physics III CREA, Paris

Ryckman, Thomas

Thomas Ryckman Structuralism in Physics III CREA, Paris 2005

Recorded at Structuralism in Physics III CREA, Paris (2005), featuring Thomas Ryckman. From the Michael Wright Collection, held by the Archive Trust for Research in Mathematical Sciences & Philosophy.

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0:00 ...type of ungrounded relation. Ungrounded relation is when you have a global phenomenon for the two, and I think it's good. Well, we can discuss it in detail, but I think... Yes, probably I have... Yeah, because here you were referring to the local obstacles. Of course, when you have local obstacles, you can say, well, this one has this position and this one has another position. But now they are not in this relation of non-separability. They are in the relation of non-separability when there is an observable, a global observable, which makes up, again, for instance here in the EPR case it's very clear that you have a global observable that is the distance of the thoughts on the planet. In this case, you have relation without relata, because to characterize the relata, you would need to make additional, individual observations, which are not available in that situation. There is a sort of complementarity. Let's thank our speakers, all our speakers today. The session starts. So the speakers, of course, are invited to the lunch, and some of those speakers are posted.