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The exigency of establishing a continuity with tradition by showing that, even when introducing radical innovations, new theories do not break with nor contradict well-confirmed former theorie is so widespread in modern science that it can be considered one of its main postulates. This postulate represents scientists’ trust in the objectivity of the natural world and their presumption that, by affording a more or less accurate description of the world, physical theories cannot be contradictory.
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Bunge [1973] 204–205.
Fadner [1985] 836.
Fadner [1985] 836.
Fadner [1985] 831.
Bunge [1973] 204–205.
For The QM Case: Bunge [1973].
Einstein [1923] a).
Einstein, [February 1912].
Pais [1982] Chap. 9.
Zurich Notebook [ea 3006]; a copy was kindly forwarded to me by the Einstein Archive in Princeton.
Einstein [March 1912] 456. Idem, p.1251. “Schritt entschließe Ich mich deshalb schwer, weil Ich mit ihm den Boden des unbedingten Aequivalenzprinzips verlasse. Es scheint, daß sich letzteres nur für unendlich kleine Felder aufrecht erhalten läßt”.
Norton [1985].
Norton [1985] 203.
For a detailed analysis of the problem of general covariance in Einstein. See: Norton [1984].
Einstein-Grossmann [1913] 233. “Es muß aber hervorgehoben werden, daß es sich als unmöglich erweist, unter dieser Voraussetzung einen Differentialausdruck gmn zu finden, der eine Verallgemeinerung von df ist, und sich beliebigen Trasformationen gegenüber als Tensor erweist”.
Einstein [1923] b).
Einstein-Grossmann [1913].
Einstein [1916].
Eistein treated the same problem using a similar procedure in: Einstein [1916] 777–778.
Einstein [1936] d), 20.
Einstein [1936] 21.
Einstein [1936] 21.
Einstein [1936] 18. “These notions and relations, although free statements of our thought, appear to us stronger and more unalterable than the individual sense experience itself”.
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D’Agostino, S. (2000). Einstein’s Correspondence Criterion and the Construction of General Relativity. In: A History of the Ideas of Theoretical Physics. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 213. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-9034-6_10
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