Concept
Oscillation
Overview
repetitive variation of some measure about a central value
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Thus, within our ego, there is succession without mutual externality; outside the ego, in pure space, mutual externality without succession: mutual externality, since the present oscillation is radically distinct from the previous oscillation, which no longer exists; but no succession, since succession exists solely for a conscious spectator who keeps the past in mind and sets the two oscillations or their symbols…
Henri Bergson, Time and Free Will
Names Oscillation several times; states what Oscillation is.
This is one of the most important laws, whose demonstration in detail by means of the history of prices constitutes perhaps the only merit of the post-Ricardian English Political Economy. If experience shows, that the level of metallic circulation or the mass of gold and silver in circulation in a given country is subject to temporary ebbs and tides and very violent ones at times,[75] but on the whole remains…
Karl Marx, A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
Names Oscillation.
One or two cases in which these oscillations are of mechanical origin, may first be noted. When a bar of steel is suspended in the magnetic meridian, and repeatedly so struck as to send vibrations through it, it becomes magnetized: the magnetic force of the Earth, which does not permanently affect it while…
Herbert Spencer, First Principles
Opens on Oscillation; names Oscillation.
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Place in the tradition
Part of Philosophy of physics.