Talking at cross-purposes: how Einstein and the logical empiricists never agreed on what they were disagreeing about
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Publication:484899
DOI10.1007/s11229-012-0229-1zbMath1302.03003MaRDI QIDQ484899
Publication date: 8 January 2015
Published in: Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)
Full work available at URL: http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/9234/1/Talking_at_Cross_Purposes_-_Correction.pdf
Albert Einstein; Hans Reichenbach; Hermann Weyl; logical empiricism; epistemology of geometry; Moritz Schlick
00A30: Philosophy of mathematics
03-03: History of mathematical logic and foundations
83-03: History of relativity and gravitational theory
03A10: Logic in the philosophy of science
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