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    Visser and Lindström demonstrated that mutual interpretab... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Interpretability is a good criterion for fixing a comparison between theories T and T'

    Visser and Lindström demonstrated that mutual interpretability strictly weaker than synonymy, so interpretability underdetermines theoretical identity.

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    • 1.Mutual interpretability allows theories to translate all propositions bidirectionally, yet they may carve reality at different joints.
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    • 2.Two mutually interpretable theories can have distinct ontologies and inference rules, suggesting identity requires something stronger.
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    • 3.If interpretability alone determined identity, empirically equivalent but conceptually incompatible frameworks would be identical.
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    • 1.The notion of 'theoretical identity' is unclear—identity for what purpose? Pragmatically equivalent theories may suffice.
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    • 2.Synonymy itself is notoriously problematic; grounding identity in a stronger but equally disputed concept doesn't resolve underdetermination.
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    • 3.Mutual interpretability might be precisely what theoretical identity requires; calling for more may conflate identity with metaphysical sameness.
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