The Gedanken Ball-and-Stick Construction Problem: What is the Most Simple Structure that it is Possible to Construct?

Abstract

A very simple question is posed: Employing a ball-and-stick modelling system, and given a supply of the component balls and rods, then, treating it as a gedanken experiment, what is the most simple structure that it is possible to construct?

Categories

Keywords

Reprint years

Links

PhilArchive

External links

  • This entry has no external links. Add one.
Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

  • Only published works are available at libraries.

My notes

Similar books and articles

The chemist’s concept of molecular structure.N. Sukumar - 2008 - Foundations of Chemistry 11 (1):7-20.
Accidents, Modes, Tropes, and Universals.John Heil - 2014 - American Philosophical Quarterly 51 (4):333-344.
Shapes: Nature's Patterns: A Tapestry in Three Parts.Philip Ball - 2011 - Oxford University Press.
Information theory and the problem of molecular structure.John F. Cyranski - 1985 - Foundations of Physics 15 (8):833-849.
Gedanken und ihre Teile.Andreas Kemmerling - 1990 - Grazer Philosophische Studien 37 (1):1-30.
Logicism and the Problem of Infinity: The Number of Numbers: Articles.Gregory Landini - 2011 - Philosophia Mathematica 19 (2):167-212.
Objectivity vs. Locality in Quantum Physics.Ernst-Walther Stachow - 2010 - Foundations of Physics 40 (9-10):1450-1475.
Finiteness of U-rank implies simplicity in homogeneous structures.Tapani Hyttinen - 2003 - Mathematical Logic Quarterly 49 (6):576.
Promptness Does Not Imply Superlow Cuppability.David Diamondstone - 2009 - Journal of Symbolic Logic 74 (4):1264 - 1272.
Zombies in Searle's chinese room: Putting the Turing test to bed. Cutrona Jr - 2005
Towards a Constructive Foundation of Quantum Mechanics.Walter Smilga - 2017 - Foundations of Physics 47 (1):149-159.
On the construction of effectively random sets.Wolfgang Merkle & Nenad Mihailović - 2004 - Journal of Symbolic Logic 69 (3):862-878.
On Lovely Pairs and the (∃ y ∈ P ) Quantifier.Anand Pillay & Evgueni Vassiliev - 2005 - Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 46 (4):491-501.
Nuclear structure on a Grassmann manifold.J. A. de Wet - 1987 - Foundations of Physics 17 (10):993-1018.
Names, Masks, and Double Vision.Michael Rieppel - 2017 - Ergo: An Open Access Journal of Philosophy 4.

Analytics

Added to PP
2019-08-20

Downloads
192 (#104,276)

6 months
40 (#97,569)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author's Profile

Citations of this work

No citations found.

Add more citations

References found in this work

No references found.

Add more references