Wiener Kreis in Ungarn: The Vienna Circle in Hungary

0369533 - FLÚ 2012 RIV AT eng M - Monography Chapter
Kvasz, Ladislav
Classical Mechanics between History and Philosophy.
Wiener Kreis in Ungarn: The Vienna Circle in Hungary. Wien: Springer, 2011 - (Máté, A.; Rédei, M.; Stadler, F.), s. 129-154. ISBN 978-3-7091-0176-6
Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z90090514
Keywords : scientific theories * Wittgenstein
Subject RIV: AA - Philosophy ; Religion

In a series of papers I proposed an interpretation of the development of scientific theories that is based on the analysis of the changes of the language and uses Wittgenstein's picture theory of meaning from the Tractatus. It turned out that the linguistic innovations in the development of exact sciences can be interpreted as changes of the pictorial form in the sense of the Tractatus. In both, the development of geometry and of algebra it was possible to identify six different forms, each of which determines the way how linguistic representations are coordinated with each other as well as with the particular subject matter, represented by the language of the theory. The aim of the present paper is to use the above mentioned approach in the epistemological interpretation of the development of classical mechanics.
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