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I AGREE with Prof. Kennard's three statements on the pronouncements of relativity, but if, as he truly says, “That is all”, what has become of the “world existing independently of experience” which was regarded as essential in his first letter? Of the three attitudes which I considered incompatible, he has chosen those of the relativist and the non-professor of omniscience, and abandoned that of the realist as defined ; he is now entirely in the realm of concepts, known facts, assumptions and rational deductions. In the terms of my former letter, he has shown no reason for giving A – A' – A" a, nonzero value. Immediately, therefore, he adds the realist contention that it has such a value, he makes an unfounded statement and so becomes dogmatic.
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DINGLE, H. Science and the Unobservable. Nature 141, 878 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141878c0
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