The Theory of Relativity and a Priori Knowledge

✍ Scribed by Hans Reichenbach

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Year: 1965
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 161
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Introduction to the English Edition Xl
I. Introduction 1
II. The Contradictions Asserted by the Special
Theory of Relativity 6
III. The Contradictions Asserted by the General
Theory of Relativity 22
IV. Knowledge as Coordination 34
v. Two Meanings of "A priori" and Kant's
Implicit Presupposition 48
VI. The Refutation of Kant's Presupposition
by the Theory of Relativity 61
VII. The Answer to the Critical Question by
the Method of Logical Analysis 74
VIII. The Concept of Knowledge of the Theory
of Relativity as an Example of the
Development of the Concept of Object 93
Reference Notes 109