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The famous use by Einstein of the elliptical non-Euclidean geometry of Reimann raised in its own way a point of extreme methodological interest and controversy, dealing with the question of the essence of geometry. Can geometry be called a physical science after the manner of, say, analytical mechanics, so that not only its validity but whole raison d’être has reference to the experiential world of real things?
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© 1969 Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands
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Kiley, J.F. (1969). The Epistemology of Albert Einstein. In: Einstein and Aquinas: A Rapprochement. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-3172-1_1
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