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Ernst Mach
Overview
Ernst Waldfried Josef Wenzel Mach ( MAHK; Austrian German: [ˈɛrnst ˈmax] ; 18 February 1838 – 19 February 1916) was an Austrian physicist and philosopher who contributed to the understanding of the physics of shock waves. The ratio of the speed of a flow or object to that of sound is named the Mach number in his honor. As a philosopher of science, he was a major influence on logical positivism and American pragmatism. Through his criticism of Isaac Newton's theories of space and time, he foreshadowed Albert Einstein's theory of relativity.
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Principia vero philosophiæ experimentalis proprie dicenda sunt fundamenta quibus illa innititur, seu fontes unde derivatur, (non dico existentia, sed) cognitio rerum corporearum, sensus utique ex experientia. Similiter, in philosophia mechanica, principia dicenda sunt, in quibus fundatur et continetur universa disciplina, leges illæ motuum primariæ, quæ experimentis comprobatæ, ratiocinio etiam excultæ sunt et…
George Berkeley, The Works of George Berkeley. Vol. 1 of 4
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This is the 'instrumental' view of truth taught so successfully at Chicago, the view that truth in our ideas means their power to 'work,' promulgated so brilliantly at Oxford. Messrs. Dewey, Schiller and their allies, in reaching this general conception of all truth, have only followed the example of geologists, biologists and philologists. In the establishment of these other sciences, the successful stroke was…
William James, Pragmatism
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Hegel's influence. 85. The type of his vision is impressionistic, 87. The 'dialectic' element in reality, 88. Pluralism involves possible conflicts among things, 90. Hegel explains conflicts by the mutual contradictoriness of concepts, 91. Criticism of his attempt to transcend ordinary logic, 92. Examples of the 'dialectic' constitution of things, 95. The rationalistic ideal: propositions self-securing by means of…
William James, A Pluralistic Universe
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Philosophers who discussed Ernst Mach
- Richard Avenarius
- Paul Carus
- George Berkeley
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Moritz Schlick
- Wilhelm Wundt
- Alexander Bogdanov
- Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen
- Otto Neurath
- Ludwig Boltzmann
- Paul Feyerabend
- Hajime Tanabe
- William James
- Robert Musil
- Christian von Ehrenfels
- Vladimir Bazarov
- Joseph Dietzgen
- Branislav Petronijević
- Ionel Gherea
- Wataru Hiromatsu
Related ideas
- Empiricism
- Richard Avenarius
- Vladimir Lenin
- Friedrich Hayek
- George Berkeley
- General relativity
- Philosophy
- Isaac Newton
- Speed of sound
- Atheism
- Logical positivism
- Marxism
- Munich
- Optics
- Vienna Circle
- Physics
- Physicist
- Prague
- Socialism
- Positivism
- Abstraction
- Theory of relativity
- Phenomenalism
- Buddhism
Place in the tradition
Part of Analytic philosophy.