Arthur Oncken Lovejoy Quotes
More philosophically-minded critics regarded Einstein's argument for relativity as little more than a logical bait-and-switch ploy: "The supposition of most expounders of the Special Theory, that Einstein has proved the relativity of simultaneity in general - or that his 'simultaneity' is something more than a logical artefact - must manifestly be given up.
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The war is always going badly.
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More philosophically-minded critics regarded Einstein's argument for relativity as little more than a logical bait-and-switch ploy: "The supposition of most expounders of the Special Theory, that Einstein has proved the relativity of simultaneity in general - or that his 'simultaneity' is something more than a logical artefact - must manifestly be given up.
