Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- NATURE AND THE GREEKS
- SCIENCE AND HUMANISM
- Dedication
- Preface
- The spiritual bearing of science on life
- The practical achievements of science tending to obliterate its true import
- A radical change in our ideas of matter
- Form, not substance, the fundamental concept
- The nature of our ‘models’
- Continuous description and causality
- The intricacy of the continuum
- The makeshift of wave mechanics
- The alleged break-down of the barrier between subject and object
- Atoms or quanta-the counter-spell of old standing, to escape the intricacy of the continuum
- Would physical indeterminacy give free will a chance?
- The barto prediction, according to Niels Bohr
The intricacy of the continuum
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2014
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- NATURE AND THE GREEKS
- SCIENCE AND HUMANISM
- Dedication
- Preface
- The spiritual bearing of science on life
- The practical achievements of science tending to obliterate its true import
- A radical change in our ideas of matter
- Form, not substance, the fundamental concept
- The nature of our ‘models’
- Continuous description and causality
- The intricacy of the continuum
- The makeshift of wave mechanics
- The alleged break-down of the barrier between subject and object
- Atoms or quanta-the counter-spell of old standing, to escape the intricacy of the continuum
- Would physical indeterminacy give free will a chance?
- The barto prediction, according to Niels Bohr
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- 'Nature and the Greeks' and 'Science and Humanism' , pp. 133 - 143Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014