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Entity and Aspects

(As Pertaining to Physical Theory)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

Erwin Biser
Erwin Biser*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri
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It is too often forgotten that even the most “objective” science such as physics is but a description, interpretation and ordering of physical reality from a selected point of view.

In founding terrestial dynamics, Galileo, the father of modern experimental physics, selected concepts that could be given exact mathematical definitions and cast in a form conducive to quantitative results. The qualitative aspects of observed phenomena, such as the color of an accelerated body, and the ultimate cause of motion—a purely metaphysical problem—do not enter into the mathematical dynamical system of Galileo.

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Research Article
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 14 , Issue 2 , April 1947 , pp. 105 - 115
Copyright
Copyright © Philosophy of Science Association 1947

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Footnotes

1

Read at the meeting of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association, Yale University, December 28, 1946.

References

2 V. F. Lenzen, Physical Theory, p. 1, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., N. Y.

3 Opere, IV, 333 ff.

4 Loc. cit., p. 8 et. seq.

5 The “Particles” of Modern Physics, J. D. Stranathon, p. 43, The Blakiston Co., Phila., Pa.

6 Dimensionality is not restricted to the symbolic formal, and structural meaning of the term as used in mathematics.

7 See my article, “A Generic Theory of Time”, J. of Phil., vol. XLIII, no. 24.