Naturalness, Extra-Empirical Theory Assessments, and the Implications of Skepticism
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DOI: 10.1007/s10701-018-0220-x
Abstract: Naturalness is an extra-empirical quality that aims to assess plausibility of a theory. Finetuning measures are often deputized to quantify the task. However, knowing statistical distributions on parameters appears necessary. Such meta-theories are not known… read more here.
Keywords: naturalness extra; skepticism naturalness; theory; empirical theory ... See more keywords