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IN his Royal Institution discourse, published in a Supplement to NATURE of January 1, Prof. H. Dingle has made an attempt to show that, if we regard the recent trend of physics (expressed by the principle: “nothing which is logically or physically unobservable is significant”) as legitimate, we are idealists. This is no new conclusion and the very thing to which M. Maritain1 and R.J. Dingle2 object.
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"Reflexions sur l'Intelligence", pp. 202–261.
"The Faith and Modern Science", pp. 40–56.
Other men of science, like Prof. Max Planck, who have paid a good deal of attention to the philosophical side of such questions, are fully aware of having such evidence. See "Positivismus und Reale Aussenwelt" (Leipzig 1931) and "Religion und Naturwissenschaft" (Leipzig, 1937).
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VAN MIERLO, S. Science and the Unobservable. Nature 141, 555–556 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141555b0
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