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- W2044644508 abstract "Professor Margenau's paper' presents an analysis of physical theory which has the great merit of exhibiting classical physics and modern quantum mechanics as different aspects of the same epistemological and methodological framework. By maintaining that there is not a and my construct of it, nor a wave length and my construct of it2 he is denying that the constructs of ordinary common sense and, a fortiori, the theoretical constructs of the physical sciences denote entities existing independently of our rational manipulation of them. This denial then enables him to treat constructs like tree and electric current exactly on a par with the A-functions of quantum mechanics not only methodologically but also ontologically. Once this is granted, he has prepared the ground for his synthesis of classical physics with quantum mechanics and is justified in inferring that In quantum mechanics, then, the basic mode of description has remained unaltered while the rules of correspondence have undergone radical changes.3 It is from the vantage point of this synthesis, that Professor Margenau implicitly challenges the realistic epistemology to achieve a similar synthesis on its own premises and charges that in order to do so, the realist need the strangest theories of metaphysics4 and would have to sell his philosophic soul. The aim of this paper is threefold: 1) to discuss some of the difficulties that seem to me to beset Professor Margenau's synthesis, 2) to show that the indubitable advantages enjoyed in some respects by his analysis over the realistic tenets held by Planck, Einstein, F. S. C. Northrop, B. Bavink and A. 0. Lovejoy are greatly counterbalanced by these difficulties, 3) to outline some of the serious unsolved problems facing both the realistic epistemology and the neo-Kantian a posteriori constructionism advocated by Mr. Margenau. A brief statement of the meaning intended by the term realism' must precede our discussion. The reader is aware from the outline just given that in this paper no attempt is being made to provide an exhaustive statement even of the rudimentary postulates of a satisfactory realistic epistemology. Neither will I attempt to show to what extent Professor Margenau's strictures on realism seem to me to be applicable only to the views held by the naive realists of the Scottish school or by the early 20th century neutral monists and neo-realists (for which I hold no brief whatsoever) rather than to the realism of Max Planck, for instance. Instead, I propose to state at least one basic point on which a viable realistic epistemology would definitely have to take issue with Professor Mar-" @default.
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- W2044644508 title "Realism and Neo-Kantianism in Professor Margenau's Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics" @default.
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