A Philosophy of Science"Dealing with the philosophical aspects of the sciences" - Preface. |
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... measurements might ruin the best of hypotheses . Experience was indeed to be the basis of science ; but measured data alone were to be regarded as " real , " and whatsoever could not be measured was to be excluded from the subject ...
... measurements might ruin the best of hypotheses . Experience was indeed to be the basis of science ; but measured data alone were to be regarded as " real , " and whatsoever could not be measured was to be excluded from the subject ...
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... measurements of the moving periphery ; and this in turn means that each measured distance is contracted . Since the special theory of relativity , being applicable only to recti- linear motion , does not hold for the rotating disc as a ...
... measurements of the moving periphery ; and this in turn means that each measured distance is contracted . Since the special theory of relativity , being applicable only to recti- linear motion , does not hold for the rotating disc as a ...
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... measurements was very slow , depending not only on various improvements of the older methods of measuring astronomical distances and magnitudes , but also on the invention of new and more efficient procedures . For centuries the only ...
... measurements was very slow , depending not only on various improvements of the older methods of measuring astronomical distances and magnitudes , but also on the invention of new and more efficient procedures . For centuries the only ...
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and Empirical Elements in Experience | 21 |
THE DISPUTES OVER SPACE AND TIME | 49 |
THE WORLD ABOUT US AND ITS INTERPRETATION | 77 |
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