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Index

AAxioms of Coordination, 14–15, 41–43

CClassical physics (Newtonian physics,

Newtonian mechanics), 2, 7–8, 13,15, 19, 23–24, 30, 36, 41–42, 107,119–120, 140, 143, 145, 152–153, 157,163, 191, 199–202, 204–205, 207–208,217, 223

Conventionalist epistemology, 44, 57Coordinate systems, 17, 32–36, 43–45, 47, 51,

77–79, 87–88, 148, 151, 193, 196, 206,208, 220

Coordinative definitions, 19, 43–46, 49, 221Criterion of Isolation, 5, 12–16, 18–19, 22–24,

27–28, 30, 59–60, 152–153, 156,160–161, 171, 190–191, 196–198, 200,204, 210–211, 214, 218–219, 224

DDescartes, Renee, 120–128, 130, 134–135

EEinstein, Albert, 9, 16, 24, 32–37, 39–40,

44–47, 49–50, 52, 55, 57, 60, 72, 74,80, 85, 88, 94, 119–120, 140, 194, 199,202, 206, 212–215

Eternalism, 93–97, 99–101, 107, 109, 113–115,117, 223

FFlat relativistic spacetime, 7, 24, 61, 80–89,

220Friedman, Michael, 14–15, 19, 41, 46–47, 51

GGeneral Theory of Relativity, 8, 31, 41, 46, 50,

53–54, 60, 62, 115, 119

IImpenetrability (impenetrable spaces), 120,

125–128, 145, 165, 169, 176, 187Inertial forces, 20, 60, 120, 128, 144, 158,

223–224Inertial reference frames, 23, 31–32, 35–37,

39, 42, 44, 47–48, 51, 54, 57–58, 76,80, 85, 88–89, 94, 107, 109, 112–113,141, 146, 148, 150, 153, 156, 161,191, 194, 198, 203–204, 206–207, 215,219–221, 224

KKepler’s Area Law, 178, 180Kepler’s Harmonic Rule, 178, 182

LLaw of energy conservation, 4–5, 11–12, 50Law of momentum conservation, 5, 13, 20, 59,

143, 146Laws of nature, 4–7, 11, 35, 61, 86, 105,

162–164, 169–172, 174, 190, 201, 210,217–218

Locality principle, 9–10

MMach, Ernst, 50, 120–121, 136–145, 156–157,

199, 205, 217Mass

gravitational, 46, 119inertial, 6–7, 21, 121–123, 140, 145,

156–161, 202, 206, 217, 224Newtonian, 3, 23, 119–146, 150–161, 191,

198–199, 201–205, 207relativistic, 7, 24, 191, 197–209, 212rest, 3, 7, 24, 145, 191, 196, 198–199,

201–208, 212–215, 217, 225McTaggart, John, 99, 103–106Minkowski, Herman, 38, 46, 48–50, 54, 57,

93, 206

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234 Index

Momentum (quantity of motion), 2, 4–7,11–13, 19–25, 27–30, 50, 59, 74, 115,120, 122–135, 141, 143–144, 146,150–152, 154–156, 158–160, 164, 171,173–177, 180–182, 185, 188–190,196–200, 203–205, 208–209, 211–212,214–215, 218, 225

NNeo-Kantian epistemology, 16Newton, Isaac, 3, 20, 50–51, 60, 103, 120,

122–137, 139, 145, 163–190, 201, 217,223

Newton’s Law of Motionfirst (law of inertia), 13, 17–19, 43, 51, 60,

63, 131, 173, 179–181, 183, 218–219second, 23, 138, 145, 157third, 139, 172–175, 187–188

Newton’s Rules for the Study of NaturalPhilosophy, 128, 165, 171, 176

PParadigm of Uniform Motion, Galilean

(GPUM), 73, 76–80, 147, 220Paradigm of Uniform Motion (PUM), 6–7,

15, 18–19, 23–24, 27, 61–83, 85–86,88–90, 96, 116, 145–150, 152–154,160–161, 163, 191–192, 194, 197,219–223

Paradigm of Uniform Motion, Relativistic(RPUM), 82–83, 85–86, 192, 194, 220

Particularism, 2, 7–11Positivism, 44Presentism, 93–97, 99–103, 105–113,

115–117, 223Principle of Relativity (restricted Principle of

Relativity), 18, 31–58, 85–86, 88–91,161, 194, 211, 219, 221–222

Principles of coordination, 17, 41–43

QQuantity of matter, 21, 23, 120–121, 126,

129–133, 135–137, 139–140, 144–146,153–156, 160–161, 174, 177, 186, 191,199, 202, 204–208, 210–212, 217–218,223–224

Quantum entanglement, 8Quantum Mechanics, 7–11

RReichenbach, Hans, 14–16, 40–43, 47, 51Relationalism, Dynamical, 54, 90Relationalism, Primitive Motion (PMR),

31, 59–91, 96, 100–101, 115–117,146–150, 221–223

Rule of Composition, 3–4, 13, 18–19, 22–24,27–28, 59, 146, 151–156, 159–161,175, 178, 186, 188, 190–191, 196–199,204, 208–211, 214, 218, 224–225

SScientific Method, 134, 163–190Scientific Method, Demonstrative Induction

(DI), 168–171, 178, 180, 182–184, 188,190

Scientific Method, Hypothetico-Deductive(HD), 166–167, 170–171, 174, 190

Separability principle, 9–10Spacetime, Flat Relativistic (Relativistic), 7,

24, 46, 56, 61–63, 71, 80–89, 107–114,191, 194, 204, 220, 222

Spacetime, Galilean, 23, 61–63, 71–80,107–108, 146–148, 152, 162–163, 191,203–204, 219–221, 224

Special Theory of Relativity (STR), 3–4,7, 18–19, 24, 50, 80, 93, 119, 145,191–215, 217, 225

Stein, Howard, 54, 94, 109–110, 112, 172–174,185

Structural assumptions, 3–8, 11–24, 59, 146,157, 161, 163–190, 199–201, 204, 206

Structural definitions, 7, 13, 24–30

TTransformations, Galilean, 76–80, 153, 155,

220Transformations, Lorentz, 33–35, 38–39,

83–89, 193–194, 206, 211–212, 221

UUniversal Law of Gravitation, 7, 134, 159,

163–190, 200