Why Constructive Relativity Fails

DOI10.1093/BJPS/AXN046zbMath1154.83300OpenAlexW1978367987MaRDI QIDQ5302228

John D. Norton

Publication date: 6 January 2009

Published in: The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/2672/1/Constructive_Relativity.pdf

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05) Special relativity (83A05)

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