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Gestalt and Relativity: An Analogy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

Roy Wood Sellars*
Affiliation:
University of Michigan

Extract

This is in no sense an attack on the theory of relativity but, instead, an attempt to clarify some points about its epistemology and ontology. It is quite probable that the queries I have had in mind are products of the past. But I observe enough uncertainty in writings here and there to justify a brief discussion.

Discarding both ether and Newtonian Space either as entities or as frames for light, we have left the problem of relating the behavior of light to physical bodies, such as the proverbial rods.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Philosophy of Science Association 1956

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