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Logical Physics (Paperback, 1983 ed.)
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Logical Physics (Paperback, 1983 ed.)
Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 74
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In this stimulating study of the logical character of selected
fundamental topics of physics, Zinov'ev has written the first, and
major, stage of a general semantics of science. In that sense he
has shown, by rigorous examples, that in certain basic and
surprising respects we may envision a reducibility of science to
logic; and further that we may detect and eliminate frequent
confusion of abstract and empirical objects. In place of a near
chaos of unplanned theoretical languages, we may look toward a
unified and epistemologically clarified general scientific
language. In the course of this work, Zinov'ev treats issues of
continuing urgency: the non-trivial import of Zeno's paradoxes; the
residually significant meaning of 'cause' in scientific
explanation; the need for lucidity in the conceptions of 'wave' and
'particle', and his own account of these; the logic of fields and
of field propagation; Kant's antimonies today; and, in a startling
aper u, an insightful note on 'measuring' consciousness. Logical
physics, an odd-appearing field of investigation, is a part of
logic; and as logic, logical physics deals with the linguistic
expressions of time, space, particle, wave, field, causality, etc.
How far this may be taken without explicit use of, or reference to,
empirical statements is still to be clarified, but Zinov'ev takes a
sympathetic reader well beyond a realist's expectation, beyond the
classical conventionalist. Zinov'ev presents his investigations in
four chapters and an appendix of technical elucidation.
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