On Kant's first insight into the problem of space dimensionality and its physical foundations

Autor:	Caruso, Francisco, Xavier, Roberto Moreira
Rok vydání:	2009
Předmět:	Physics - History and Philosophy of Physics
Zdroj:	Kant-Studien. Volume 106, Issue 4, Pages 547-560 (2015)
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
DOI:	10.1515/kant-2015-0051
Popis:	In this article it is shown that a careful analysis of Kant's "Thoughts on the True Estimation of Living Forces" leads to a conclusion that does not match the usually accepted interpretation of Kant's reasoning in 1747, according to which the Young Kant supposedly establishes a relationship between the tridimensionality of space and Newton's law of universal gravitation. Indeed, it is argued that this text does not yield a satisfactory explanation of space dimensionality, actually restricting itself to justify the tridimensionality of extension. Comment: 14 pages
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/0907.3531 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv