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Phonons—The Quantization of Sound (and Kant's Second Antinomy)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

C. W. Berenda
C. W. Berenda*
Affiliation:
The University of Oklahoma
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Abstract

The recent extension of quantum theory to sound waves in solids is briefly outlined and then discussed from a specific philosophic (Kantian) perspective.

Type
Research Article
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 35 , Issue 2 , June 1968 , pp. 179 - 184
Copyright
Copyright © 1968 The Philosophy of Science Association

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Footnotes

Delivered at the Southwest Philosophical Society Meetings, Santa Fe, November, 1967.

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