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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2010

D. J. Newman
D. J. Newman
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Imperial College, London, S.W.7.
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The present paper is an attempt to develop and illuminate the foundations of structure theory as presented in a previous paper [8] which will be referred to as I.

Our approach is based on an unorthodox view of physical theory, largely due to Eddington ([5], [6], [7]), that leads us to expect that at least some (and perhaps all) physical laws are derivable from a consideration of the intrinsic nature of measurement. This is discussed in the Introduction of I. A theory with this approach will be called “pre-empirical”, in contrast with orthodox physical theories, which are postempirical.

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Mathematika , Volume 5 , Issue 2 , December 1958 , pp. 146 - 160
Copyright
Copyright © University College London 1958

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