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    Weyl abandoned the classical pure field theory of matter ... — Carmelics
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    Weyl abandoned the classical pure field theory of matter despite its appeal.

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    • 1.Weyl adopted the classical pure field theory of matter in the first three editions of Space-Time-Matter because of its beauty and unity.
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    • 2.Weyl subsequently gave up that standpoint.
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    • 1.Weyl's turn toward quantum mechanics in the 1920s redeployed, rather than rejected, the gauge-theoretic structure he developed under the classical field program.
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    • 2.Lakatos's distinction between a protective belt and a hard core implies that revising auxiliary hypotheses does not constitute abandoning the core research program.
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    • 3.The classical pure field theory's 'appeal' was precisely what motivated Weyl to seek its successor, making his transition an evolution driven by that appeal rather than a repudiation of it.
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    • 1.Weyl's retention of the pure field program's mathematical framework in later work suggests methodological continuity, not abandonment.
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    • 2.A thinker can revise metaphysical commitments while preserving the research program, making 'abandonment' too strong a characterization.
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    Mie’s theory of matter is akin to the traditional geometric view of matter: matter is passive and pure extension. Weyl (1921b) remarks that he adopted the standpoint of the classical pure field theory of matter in the first three editions of Weyl (1923b) because of its beauty and unity, but then gave it up. Weyl (1931a) points out in the Rouse Ball Lecture that since the theory of general relativity geometrized a physical entity, the gravitational field, it was natural to try to geometrize
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