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Kant, Schlick and Friedman on Space, Time and Gravity in Light of Three Lessons from Particle Physics.

Kantian philosophy of space, time and gravity is significantly affected in three ways by particle physics. First, particle physics deflects Schlick’s General Relativity-based critique of synthetic a priori knowledge. Schlick argued that since geometry was not synthetic a priori, nothing was—a key st...

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Published in:Erkenntnis Vol. 83; no. 2; pp. 135 - 162
Main Author: Pitts, J. Brian
Format: Article
Published: Springer Nature Apr2018
Subjects:
Logical positivism
Particle physics
Kantian ethics
General relativity (Physics)
Spacetime
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