Probably the most rewarding paper I’ve read in the last 5 years. Epistemic *and* ontological.
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The Game’s Afoot: Predecessors and Pursuits of a Postmodern Detective Novel (in Theory and Practice of Classic Detective Fiction), Kathleen Belin Owen amazon.com/Practice-Class
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This Holmes vs Gently archetypal dichotomy has really shaped all my thinking in the last few years. I’m firmly on the Gently side. My lens is primarily ontological.
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Ken Shinozuka introduced me to Ontic Structural Realism (OSR) as an alternative to Epistemic Structural Realism (ESR). If I understood advanced physics the OSR view of it is the one I’d stan. Though it’s not specific to physics. Scroll down here.
