सापेक्षता सिद्धांत और अनुभव-पूर्व ज्ञान

परिचय

Reichenbach’s habilitation thesis was published in 1920, a year after the eclipse observations that made general relativity famous. It asks what remains of Kant’s synthetic a priori when physics has abandoned Euclidean space and absolute time. His answer separates two things Kant had joined: principles that are necessary for all time, and principles that first constitute the object of physical knowledge by coordinating mathematics with experience. Relativity shows that the second kind can change, so they are a priori only in a relative sense. In correspondence with Moritz Schlick Reichenbach soon replaced this language with talk of conventions; the idea of a “relativised a priori” was taken up again by Michael Friedman in the 1990s.

संबंध

जिस पर आधारित

• गतिमान पिंडों के विद्युत-गतिकी पर1905 · अल्बर्ट आइंस्टीन

जिनकी आलोचना की

• शुद्ध तर्कबुद्धि की समालोचना1781 · इमानुएल कांट

हान्स राइशनबाख की और कृतियाँ

• 1938अनुभव और पूर्वानुमान