The Theory of Indistinguishables: A Search for Explanatory Principles Below the Level of Physics

It is widely assumed that there exist certain objects which can in no way be distinguished from each other, unless by their location in space or other reference—system. Some of these are, in a broad sense, 'empirical objects', such as electrons. Their case would seem to be similar to that of certain mathematical 'objects', such as the minimum set of manifolds defining the dimensionality of an R —space. It is therefore at first sight surprising that there exists no branch of mathematics, in ...