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Postulates for Physical Time

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

Erwin Biser
Erwin Biser*
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Rutgers University
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It is evident to every earnest thinker that a theory of time is in a very significant sense implicit in any philosophy of nature. Indeed, the search for a time standard independent of the variation of the earth's speed, the maximum variation being slightly more than one-thousandth of a second, involves the most basic concepts and principles of physical theory (8).

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Philosophy of Science , Volume 19 , Issue 1 , January 1952, pp. 50 - 69
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Copyright © Philosophy of Science Association 1952

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Footnotes

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This inquiry was undertaken with the aid of a grant given by the Research Council of Rutgers University. Parts of the paper were read before the Rutgers Mathematics Colloquium, the Fullerton Club at Bryn Mawr College, and the American Philosophical Association at Charlottesville, Virginia, December, 1948.

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