James Ladyman (1998), Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 29(3):409-424 — DOI-10.1016/S0039-3681(98)80129-5
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Registered on 2026-09-29 at the owner’s request, because the owner’s prior-art novelty map (a private working document on concepts as projectors, the linear representation hypothesis and their neighbours) cites it: row 9: the paper that names ontic structural realism, backing ‘to be = to be an invariant of structure’. It is seeded from metadata and published descriptions and has not been read here.
Identification notes: Not held: nucleation LIT-045 is Ladyman’s SEP entry (2007), LIT-217 is Ladyman 2001 (Philosophica), LIT-184 is Ladyman 2023 (effective OSR), LIT-219 is Ladyman & Ross 2024 — none is the 1998 paper.
A close reading was attempted on 2026-09-29. No legitimate full text could be reached: Checked first: the private converted-text cache (no file, no manifest entry). OpenAlex for DOI 10.1016/S0039-3681(98)80129-5: closed. Its second location, the University of Bristol Pure record (hdl 1983/7e77a2f8-…, ‘What is Structural Realism?’), has metadata only and no attached file. Crossref shows only an Elsevier TDM user licence, and SHPS A 1998 is not in Elsevier’s open archive. ScienceDirect returned 403. Semantic Scholar: closed. PhilPapers (LADWIS-2) returned 403. PhilSci-Archive search found nothing. The web copies found (Scribd and similar uploads) are unauthorised third-party uploads and were not used. It stays Unavailable until a copy is supplied, not on merit.