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Operative Gesichtspunkte bei der Diskussion des Weberschen Gesetzes

Walter Kaiser

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PhilosophyPhilosophy of scienceConservation of energyConsistency (negotiation)PhilosophyMathematics::History and OverviewGeneral Social SciencesHistory of physicsHistory generalPhysics::History of PhysicsArgumentation theoryEpistemology

description

The analysis of structures of argumentation in historical controversies is considered to be a basic contribution to the dynamics of theories. In this paper attention is drawn to the occurence of operational arguments in the history of physics. This is to be discussed especially in respect to the nineteenth-century debates on the consistency of Wilhelm Weber's electrodynamic law with the principle of conservation of energy.

https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01800413