Methodology of Modern Physics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10707205 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Henry Margenau (Yale University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1935 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 164-187 |
| Publication date | 1935-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Philosophy of Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8248 • E-ISSN: 1539-767X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1086/286362 |
| OpenAlex | W4253881523 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
Do masses, electrons, atoms, magnetic field strengths, etc., exist ? Nothing is more surprising indeed than the fact that in these days of minute quantitative analysis, of relativistic thought, most of us still expect an answer to this question in terms of yes or no. The physicist frowns upon questions of the sort: is this object green?; or what time is it on a distant star? For he knows that there are many different shades of green, and that the time depends on the state of motion of the star. Almost every term that has come under scientific scrutiny has lost its initially absolute significance and acquired a range of meaning of which even the boundaries are often variable. Apparently the word to be has escaped this process
Epistemology · Linguistics · Meaning (existential) · Nothing · Object (grammar) · Physicist · Physics · Scrutiny · Theoretical physics · Computational Physics and Python Applications · Philosophy · Quantum Mechanics and Applications
| Citations per year | 0.06 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1949 - 2012 (64) |
| Highly cited | No |