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Physical Versus Historical Reality

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

Henry Margenau
Henry Margenau*
Affiliation:
Yale University
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The science of the 19th and early 20th century permitted the view that all human experience is subject to the deterministic laws of physics. Reality was conformable with these laws, and the laws could be used to designate what is real.

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Research Article
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 19 , Issue 3 , July 1952 , pp. 193 - 213
Copyright
Copyright © 1952, The Williams & Wilkins Company

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