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- W960687653 abstract "(1) Grunbaum's last memorandum in defense of ‘conventionalism’ with respect to geometry seemed to me to mark a definite shift in his position since our Princeton conference. I hope that this shift was conscious and intentional, and that ‘polemical’ considerations will not lead Grunbaum to repudiate this ‘shift’ if I point it out! The shift I have in mind is this: at the Princeton conference Grunbaum emphasized that his ‘conventionalism’ is a logical (or perhaps metaphysical?) thesis, but certainly not an empirical one. I specifically put to him the following question, which I regard as of central importance for this area: what he would say if the world were ‘Newtonian’ (e.g. the Michelson-Morley experiment had the ‘other’ result, the velocity of light relative to the ‘ether’ were measurable, etc.); and he replied that his position would be unchanged. That is, in a Newtonian world, even one in which the notion of ‘absolute velocity’ has obvious physical meaning, length is still not an intrinsic (Grunbaum's word, not mine!) property of physical objects, and simultaneity is still not an intrinsic relation between physical events. The choice of a metric is still a matter of convention; although (in such a world) one conventionf is immensely superior to all rivals, from a practical standpoint. (This was Reichenbach's standpoint in his Space-Time book as I pointed out; and it is precisely this notion of a ‘convention’ which cannot be told from a bona-fide physical law‡ that I find so puzzling.) Now, however, it appears that the strongest arguments for conventionalism are from its alleged empirical import; and this empirical import of ‘conventionalism’ is linked by Grunbaum to the special theory of relativity." @default.
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- W960687653 title "Memo on ‘conventionalism’" @default.
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