Explanation, analyticity and constitutive principles in spacetime theories

DOI10.1016/j.shpsb.2018.08.002zbMath1409.83004OpenAlexW2888732959MaRDI QIDQ666911

Adán Sus

Publication date: 12 March 2019

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.2018.08.002

zbMATH Keywords

special relativitydynamical symmetryconstitutive principlesspacetime symmetry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special relativity (83A05) Axiomatics, foundations (70A05)

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