id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_ujqkuwlcffh5fnr3egmaok5rkq Simon Friederich Symmetry, Empirical Equivalence, and Identity 2014 24 .pdf application/pdf 10548 594 60 David Wallace, who claim that, contrary to the standard folklore among philosophers of physics, local symmetries may have direct empirical significance no less two states of the universe as a whole which are connected by a space-time symmetry represent one and the same physical situation.4 For example, two universe The idea to focus on subsystem symmetries to elucidate matters of direct empirical significance is suggested already in (Brown and Sypel [1995]), taken up in 5See (Guilini [1995]) for a defence of the view that symmetry transformations which act differently from the identity transformation at space-time-like infinity in a gauge theory are "physical" Greaves and Wallace argue that the symmetry which has direct empirical significance 'in this case will be purely relational, in the sense that the intrinsic properties of both subsystem and environment separately are entirely unaffected, and it ./cache/work_ujqkuwlcffh5fnr3egmaok5rkq.pdf ./txt/work_ujqkuwlcffh5fnr3egmaok5rkq.txt