Convention: Poincaré and Some of His Critics

DOI10.1093/bjps/52.3.471zbMath1044.00003OpenAlexW2087007914MaRDI QIDQ2780786

Yemima Ben-Menahem

Publication date: 2001

Published in: The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/bjps/52.3.471

zbMATH Keywords

conventionalismfoundations of geometrysynthetic a prioriQuine-Duhem thesisgeneral theory of relativity and geometryinter-translatabilityprinciple of equivalence in general theory of relativity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophy of mathematics (00A30) History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60)

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