Category: Science - Physics
Chemical Society of the students of the Imperial College of Science and Technology. It has been appended here as conveniently summing up and applying the doctrine of the book for an audience with one definite type of outlook.
The two previous lectures of this course have been mainly critical. In the present lecture I propose to enter upon a survey of the kinds of entities which are posited for knowle...
5. CHAPTER IVTo-day's lecture must commence with the consideration of limited events. We shall then be in a position to enter upon an investigation of the factors in nature which are represe...
3. CHAPTER IIIn my previous lecture I criticised the concept of matter as the substance whose attributes we perceive. This way of thinking of matter is, I think, the historical reason for it...
2. CHAPTER IThe subject-matter of the Tarner lectures is defined by the founder to be 'the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Relations or Want of Relations between the different Department...
7. CHAPTER VIThe aim of this lecture is to establish a theory of congruence. You must understand at once that congruence is a controversial question. It is the theory of measurement in space...
8. CHAPTER VIIThe ensuing lecture is concerned with the theory of objects. Objects are elements in nature which do not pass. The awareness of an object as some factor not sharing in the passa...
6. CHAPTER VThe topic for this lecture is the continuation of the task of explaining the construction of spaces as abstracts from the facts of nature. It was noted at the close of the previ...
9. CHAPTER VIIIThere is a general agreement that Einstein's investigations have one fundamental merit irrespective of any criticisms which we may feel inclined to pass on them. They have made...
10. CHAPTER IXThe second chapter of this book lays down the first principle to be guarded in framing our physical concept. We must avoid vicious bifurcation. Nature is nothing else than the d...
11. Chapter IV (p. 74) of this book. There is not only a significance of thediscerned events embracing the whole present duration, but there is a significance of a cogredient event involving its extension through a whole time-system backwards and forwar...
1. Chapter VIII is a lecture delivered in the spring of 1920 before theChemical Society of the students of the Imperial College of Science and Technology. It has been appended here as conveniently summing up and applying the doctrine of the book fo...