The determinate world : Kant and Helmholtz on the physical meaning of geometry /
This book offers a new interpretation of Hermann von Helmholtz's work on the epistemology of geometry. A detailed analysis of the philosophical arguments of Helmholtz's Erhaltung der Kraft shows that he took physical theories to be constrained by a regulative ideal. They must render nature...
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Language: | English |
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Berlin ; New York :
Walter de Gruyter,
2009
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Series: | Quellen und Studien zur Philosophie ;
Bd. 69. |
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Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |