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

DOI10.1016/J.SHPSB.2015.05.004zbMATH Open1329.00124OpenAlexW973781049MaRDI QIDQ905655FDOQ905655

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

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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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