The constitutive a priori and the distinction between mathematical and physical possibility

DOI10.1016/J.SHPSB.2015.05.004MaRDI QIDQ905655zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jonathan Everett

Publication date 27 January 2016

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.2015.05.004

zbMATH Keywords

Cassirerrelativized a prioriconstitutive principlesregulative principlesReichenbachrotating disk thought experiment

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Physics (00A79) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Philosophy of mathematics (00A30) Axiomatics, foundations (70A05)

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