The urge to instrument
FEB 01, 1957
DOI: 10.1063/1.3060263
The empirical nature of current physical thought has often been called into question by our colleagues in epistemology. The implication of their charges is that we physicists are progressively constructing a set of dogmas so highly abstracted from experience as to be unreal. The complexities of the question preclude any simple answer, but some of its grosser aspects will submit to evidence.
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References
1. Erwin Biser, “Invariance and Timeless Laws,” Methodos 7, 213 (1955).
More about the authors
Donald A. Cowan, Texas Christian University.
© 1957 American Institute of Physics
