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It must be noted, however, that it is not nearly so clear in the actual work of scientists that they exclude everything relativism, as a physical theory, regards as nondeducible. This is, in fact, an important limitation, which we believe is often overlooked.
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Gabriel Lippmann, ’La théorie cinétique des gaz et le principe de Carnot,’ Congrès de physique de 1900,1:550.
A. A. Robb, Optical Geometry of Motion (Cambridge, 1911);A Theory of Time and Space (Cambridge, 1914); The Absolute Relations of Time and Space (Cambridge, 1921). We are only familiar with the last of these.
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Meyerson, É. (1985). Interpretation. In: The Relativistic Deduction. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 83. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5211-9_15
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