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The philosopher of science is not much interested in the thought processes which lead to scientific discoveries he looks for a logical analysis of the completed theory, including the establishing its validity. That is, he is not interested in the context of discovery, but in the context of justification.

Hans Reichenbach

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Hans Reichenbach
Age: 61 †
Born: 1891
Born: September 26
Died: 1953
Died: April 9
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Hamburg
Freie und Hansestadt
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We can... treat only the geometrical aspects of mathematics and shall be satisfied in having shown that there is no problem of the truth of geometrical axioms and that no special geometrical visualization exists in mathematics.
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We must... maintain that mathematical geometry is not a science of space insofar as we understand by space a visual structure that can be filled with objects - it is a pure theory of manifolds.
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Occasionally one speaks... of signals or signal chains. It should be noted that the word signal means the transmission of signs and hence concerns the very principle of causal order.
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You see, there is no more purpose or meaning in the world than you put into it.
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...the differential element of non-Euclidean spaces is Euclidean. This fact, however, is analogous to the relations between a straight line and a curve, and cannot lead to an epistemological priority of Euclidean geometry, in contrast to the views of certain authors.
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