Hans Reichenbach

German–American philosopher

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From Copernicus to Einstein
Ziele und Wege der physikalischen Erkenntnis
Miscellaneous papers, 1920-1931
Der Begriff der Wahrscheinlichkeit für die mathematische Darstellung der Wirklichkeit
Philosophische Grundlagen der Quantenmechanik und Wahrscheinlichkeit

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“"If along the path of truth, success (which was often near-failure unnoticed) is subjected to the same scrutiny and desire for improvement as failure, we may find ourselves in closer proximity to trees."”
“Although it is admitted that certain differences cannot be verified by experiment, we should not infer from this fact that they do not exist. ...we are accused of having confused subjective inability with objective indeterminacy.”
“...the order of betweenness does not depend on mutual distances... betweenness is purely a relational order.”
“...the differential element of non-Euclidean spaces is Euclidean. This fact, however, is analogous to the relations between a straight line and a curve, and cannot lead to an epistemological priority of Euclidean geometry, in contrast to the views of certain authors.”
“Visual forms are not perceived differently from colors or brightness. They are sense qualities, and the visual character of geometry consists in these sense qualities.”
“Perceptual space is not a special space in addition to physical space, but physical space which we endow with a special subjective metric. ...apart from the definition of congruence in physics and that based on perception, there is no third one derived from pure visualization. Any such third definition is nothing but the definition of physical congruence to which our normative function has adjusted the subjective experience of congruence.”

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Born: ( 1891-09-26 ) September 26, 1891, Hamburg , German Empire
Died: April 9, 1953 (1953-04-09) (aged 61), Los Angeles , California , U.S.
Education: Friedrich Wilhelm University of Berlin , University of Göttingen , Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München , University of Erlangen (PhD, 1916), Technische Hochschule Stuttgart ( Dr. phil. hab. , 1920)
Theses: Der Begriff der Wahrscheinlichkeit für die mathematische Darstellung der Wirklichkeit (The Concept of Probability for the Mathematical Representation of Reality) (1916) The Theory of Relativity and A Priori Knowledge (Relativitätstheorie und Erkenntnis Apriori) (1920)
Doctoral advisors: Paul Hensel , Max Noether (PhD advisors)
Other advisors: Max Born , Ernst Cassirer , David Hilbert , Max Planck , Arnold Sommerfeld , Albert Einstein
Era: 20th-century philosophy
Region: Western philosophy
School: Analytic , Berlin Circle , Logical empiricism
Institutions: Friedrich Wilhelm University of Berlin , Istanbul University , UCLA
Doctoral students: Carl Gustav Hempel , Hilary Putnam , Wesley Salmon
Main interests: Philosophy of science