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A New Foundation of Physical TheoriesReal and Possible as Physical Concepts

A New Foundation of Physical Theories: Real and Possible as Physical Concepts [Since the beginning of our description of the structure of a physical theory in Sect. 3.2, we started with the application domain Ap as a part of “reality,” as that part which we can describe by the basic language Bl. Thus we presumed that we could gain for a PT, by immediate observations and by pre-theories, a text à as a description of a part of Ap; only a part, since for practically all Ap we have never established “all” the realities of Ap. In Sect. 5.3 we have seen that with an analysis of the pre-theories we can go back from the language Bl to a language Bli which does not use any pre-theory. Such application domains Api, with languages Bli, are the starting points of all of physics. To a part of Api, formulated in a language Bli, corresponds a text Ãi which we “presume” to be a description of a part of the “reality.” We “presume” such immediately observed realities and do not base them on philosophical considerations. We presume, e.g., that there is a “real” cup of tea if we have observed this cup of tea on a table.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A New Foundation of Physical TheoriesReal and Possible as Physical Concepts

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Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006
ISBN
978-3-540-30832-4
Pages
121 –144
DOI
10.1007/3-540-30833-4_6
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[Since the beginning of our description of the structure of a physical theory in Sect. 3.2, we started with the application domain Ap as a part of “reality,” as that part which we can describe by the basic language Bl. Thus we presumed that we could gain for a PT, by immediate observations and by pre-theories, a text à as a description of a part of Ap; only a part, since for practically all Ap we have never established “all” the realities of Ap. In Sect. 5.3 we have seen that with an analysis of the pre-theories we can go back from the language Bl to a language Bli which does not use any pre-theory. Such application domains Api, with languages Bli, are the starting points of all of physics. To a part of Api, formulated in a language Bli, corresponds a text Ãi which we “presume” to be a description of a part of the “reality.” We “presume” such immediately observed realities and do not base them on philosophical considerations. We presume, e.g., that there is a “real” cup of tea if we have observed this cup of tea on a table.]

Published: Jan 1, 2006

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