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THE author of this work has made up his mind in advance that the question of relativity is a philosophical problem. It is therefore necessary for him to dismiss contemptuously all the history of the purely physical principle technically known as “the principle of relativity.” To say as he does that the Michelson-Morley experiment “assuredly has nothing to do with the principle of relativity” is simply to say that the principle is not what it is. The author refuses to call the principle a hypothesis, and asserts “that it is an a priori proposition, a postulate of pure thought which either holds good universally or has no validity whatever.”
The Principle of Relativity in the Light of the Philosophy of Science.
By Paul Carus. Pp. 105. (London and Chicago: The Open Court Publishing Co., 1913.) Price 4s. net.
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The Principle of Relativity in the Light of the Philosophy of Science . Nature 93, 187 (1914). https://doi.org/10.1038/093187c0
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