Un-conventional wisdom: theory-specificity in Reichenbach's geometric conventionalism

DOI10.1016/J.SHPSB.2004.04.005MaRDI QIDQ640080zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Steven Gimbel

Publication date 17 October 2011

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 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsb.2004.04.005

zbMATH Keywords

geometryHans Reichenbachconventionalism

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies (01A70) Philosophy of mathematics (00A30) History of relativity and gravitational theory (83-03)

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