Substance and Function & Einstein’s Theory of Relativity (Dover Books on Mathematics) 1st Edition by Ernst Cassirer (PDF)

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In this double-volume work, a great modern philosopher propounds a system of thought in which Einstein’s theory of relativity represents only the latest (albeit the most radical) fulfillment of the motives inherent to mathematics and the physical sciences. In the course of its exposition, it touches upon such topics as the concept of number, space and time, geometry, and energy; Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometry; traditional logic and scientific method; mechanism and motion; Mayer’s methodology of natural science; Richter’s definite proportions; relational concepts and the activity of the ego; Einstein’s relativity and “reality”; and the philosophical concept of truth and its role in relativity theory. 1923 edition.

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Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:

⭐Is the worst “edition” i can imagine. Its just a photocopy (including pencil stripes). I recomend you not to buy Forgottn Books.

⭐This Kindle edition is simply a “kindle-ization” of the .PDF volume which can be downloaded for free from the Internet Archive. The text is poorly formatted, and often times the OCR process has completely scrambled the text. There is no relation between the table of contents and the text. The footnotes simply show up anywhere (and Cassirer footnoted extensively.) All of these facts are readily evident by simply looking at the free sample.The book itself is one of the most important contributions to the philosophy of science in the last 2 centuries or more. A *REAL* Kindle version is desperately needed. In the meantime, you are better off simply downloading the .PDF from the Internet Archive. At least the formatting and text will align, and you can still read it on your kindle.

⭐In Thomas Kuhn’s terms this 1923 classic is the codification of the new paradigm of relativity with a comparison of the older theories.The theory is based on the work of basically German scientists and mathematicians : Klein, Riemann, Lorentz and Einstein with a mention or two of the Frenchman Poincare. The Italians Bianchi and Beltrami are given little credit for their contributions. What seems clear from reading this doctrine is that the paradigm shifted in spite of authors like thisand not because of them. We are again approaching a paradigm shiftin which the standard model and the dark matter/ dark energy cosmologistswill come head to head. The quantum information and information theorydoctrine is also boiling over in an entirely new directionfrom the Boolean / symbolic doctrines found in set theory.Once the change comes about this text will be much more obsoletethan it is now. Mathematics and physics makes slow progress,but it is steady. If civilization survives a new quantum paradigmbased on understanding of the early universe is ahead.

⭐Cassirer is, nowadays, a very underrated philosopher in the anglosaxic world, although this book has been gathering some attention in the last few years. This attention is well-deserved. While an early work, it still constitutes one of the best accounts of Kantianism written. Ramsey wrote that perhaps, we should not read Kant, but Schopenhauer, but immediately took it back, admitting that Schopenhauer “did not really understand Kant”. He definitely should have said “we should not read Kant, but Cassirer”.

⭐Estoy muy contento. el libro ya lo he leído y muestra varias cosas interesantes sobre los símbolos y el lenguaje partiendo de una aclaración de la sustancia humana, no mundial. Mis trabajos indican que las señales se pueden interpretar de otra manera a como Cassirer explica. Pero su manera de aclarar es muy plausible, aunque no completa. También cabe destacar que su visión filosófica trata de unir filosofía y física de una manera muy notable. Lo recomiendo.

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