'But one must not legalize the mentioned sin': phenomenological vs. dynamical treatments of rods and clocks in Einstein's thought
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Publication:476059
DOI10.1016/j.shpsb.2014.08.012zbMath1301.83003MaRDI QIDQ476059
Publication date: 27 November 2014
Published in: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)
Full work available at URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2318/1737428
Albert Einstein; relativity theory; Hermann Weyl; confirmational holism; rods and clocks; Wolfgang Pauli
01A60: History of mathematics in the 20th century
83C05: Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems)
83A05: Special relativity
83-03: History of relativity and gravitational theory
00A79: Physics
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