Axiomatizing relativistic dynamics using formal thought experiments

DOI10.1007/S11229-014-0545-8MaRDI QIDQ514563zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Attila Molnár, Gergely Székely

Publication date 9 March 2017

Published in Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://real.mtak.hu/33690/1/LR12pub.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

relativistic dynamicsfirst-order modal logicthought experimentsdefinition of mass

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Modal logic (including the logic of norms) (03B45) Logic in the philosophy of science (03A10) Relativistic dynamics for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H40)

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