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| A. d’Abro - Philosophy Dictionary of Arguments | |||
| A. d’Abro (1901 – 1996), Armenian-American science historian and writer. His major works include The Evolution of Scientific Thought from Newton to Einstein (1927), Newtonian Mechanics (1934), and The Rise of the New Physics: Its Mathematical and Physical Theories (1939). His fields of specialization were history of physics, the philosophy of science, and the popularization of science.
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| Formalism: the thesis that statements acquire their meaning only from the rules for substituting, inserting, eliminating, forming, equality and inequality of symbols within a calculus or system. See also calculus, meaning, rules, content, correctness, systems, truth._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
| Author | Item | More concepts for author | |
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| Bigelow, John | Formalism | Bigelow | |
| Carnap, Rudolf | Formalism | Carnap | |
| Duhem, Pierre | Formalism | Duhem | |
| d’Abro, A. | Formalism | d’Abro | |
| Frege, Gottlob | Formalism | Frege | |
| Geach, Peter | Formalism | Geach | |
| Heyting, Arend | Formalism | Heyting | |
| Lanier, Jaron | Formalism | Lanier | |
| Quine, W.V.O. | Formalism | Quine | |
| Thiel, Christian | Formalism | Thiel | |
| Waismann, Friedrich | Formalism | Waismann | |
| Wittgenstein, Ludwig | Formalism | Wittgenstein | |
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