Towards an Account of Complementarities and Context-Dependence

2025/04/14 by Hong Joo Ryoo · 1 voice · 1 citation
Medicine · Physics and Astronomy · #Biofield Effects and Biophysics #Context (archaeology) #Economics #Geography #physics.hist-ph #quant-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.33043/ymcgr3hb

published in Stance An International Undergraduate Philosophy Journal 18(1), 44-59 (Ball State University)

openalex publication_date 2025/04/14 · arxiv published 2025/04/16 · arxiv updated 2025/04/16 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/06

Abstract

Modern physics proposals present deep tensions between seemingly contradictory descriptions of reality. Views of wave-particle duality, black hole complementarity, and the Unruh effect demand explanations that shift depending on how a system is observed. However, traditional models of scientific explanation impose a fixed structure that fails to account for varying observational contexts. This paper introduces context-dependent mapping, a framework that reorganizes physical laws into self-consistent subsets structured around what can actually be observed in a given context. By doing so, it provides a principled way to integrate complementarity into the philosophy of explanation.

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Discussions

• Hong Joo Ryoo: Towards an Account of Complementarities and Context-Dependence https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.09622 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.09622 https://arxiv.org/html/2505.09622 [bsky, 0 points, 1 comments]

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