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The Reality of the Unobservable

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

W. V. Metcalf
W. V. Metcalf*
Affiliation:
College Hill, Clinton, N. Y.
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In the issue of Nature for January 1, 1938, Professor Dingle has given us a remarkably clear and thorough analysis of what the physicist really means, or ought to mean, by the principle that only that which is observable is physically real, or has physical meaning.

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Research Article
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 7 , Issue 3 , July 1940 , pp. 337 - 341
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Copyright © The Philosophy of Science Association 1940

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References

1 See two articles by the author, Phil, of Sci. 5, 354 (1938) and 6, 367 (1939).