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    Hans Reichenbach — Carmelics
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    Hans Reichenbach

    Hans Reichenbach

    modernLogical Empiricism

    1891 – 1953

    Hans Reichenbach was a German-American philosopher of science and a leading figure in the Berlin Circle of logical empiricism. He made foundational contributions to the philosophy of space and time, probability theory, and the logical analysis of scientific knowledge, particularly regarding Einstein's theory of relativity.

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    Notable Achievements

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    Founded the Berlin Circle (Society for Empirical Philosophy) in 1928

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    Developed a frequentist interpretation of probability and the concept of 'weight' for single events

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    Authored 'The Philosophy of Space and Time' (1928), a seminal work on the conventionality of simultaneity and geometry

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    Formulated the 'common cause principle' explaining statistical correlations

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    Advanced the pragmatic vindication of induction as a justification for inductive inference

    Positions & Arguments(5)

    Skepticism

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    Reichenbach was not able to recognize the Weyl method as other than an equivalent account of empirical determination of the metric

    Truth & Knowledge

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    Reichenbach was not able to recognize the Weyl method as other than an equivalent account of empirical determination of the metric

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    We must distinguish between the radical empiricist's meaning of 'meaning' (epistemic reduction) and a more common-sensical meaning of 'meaning' (factual reference).

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    Metric geometry is neither true nor false.

    Modality & Possibility

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    The second 'broad assumption' (¬p ∧ ¬Fp) → P¬Fp is not true when p refers to a future contingency

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    Metric geometry is neither true nor false.

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    Mensuration in relativity need not depend on clocks and rigid bodies.

    Free Will & Foreknowledge

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    The second 'broad assumption' (¬p ∧ ¬Fp) → P¬Fp is not true when p refers to a future contingency

    Philosophy of Language

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    We must distinguish between the radical empiricist's meaning of 'meaning' (epistemic reduction) and a more common-sensical meaning of 'meaning' (factual reference).

    Causation

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    Mensuration in relativity need not depend on clocks and rigid bodies.

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    Truth & Knowledge3
    Modality & Possibility3
    Causation1
    Free Will & Foreknowledge1
    Philosophy of Language1
    Skepticism1

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