A NOTE ON BERKELEY AS PRECURSOR OF MACH

@article{Popper1953ANO,
  title={A NOTE ON BERKELEY AS PRECURSOR OF MACH},
  author={Karl Raimund Sir Popper},
  journal={The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science},
  year={1953},
  volume={4},
  pages={26 - 36}
}
  • K. Popper
  • Published 1 May 1953
  • Physics
  • The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
THE purpose of this note is to give a list of those ideas of Berkeley's in the field of the philosophy of physics which have a strikingly new look. They are mainly ideas which were rediscovered and reintroduced into the discussion of modern physics by Ernst Mach and Heinrich Hertz, and by a number of philosophers and physicists, some of them influenced by Mach, such as Bertrand Russell, Philip Frank, Richard von Mises, Moritz Schlick,1 Werner Heisenberg, and others. 
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