Hans Reichenbach Quotes on Time
Hans Reichenbach was a German-American philosopher of science and the founder of the Berlin Circle of logical empiricists. This page collects quotes attributed to Hans Reichenbach on the topic of time, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Hans Reichenbach:
“There is no absolute time; time is relative to the frame of reference.”
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Attributed to Hans Reichenbach:
“Causality is a regularity of succession refined by laws.”
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“This fact... proves that space measurements are reducible to time measurements. Time is therefore logically prior to space .”
The Philosophy of Space and Time(1928, tr. 1957) -
“Light signals alone provide the metrical structure of the four-dimensional space-time continuum. The construction may be called light axioms .”
The Philosophy of Space and Time(1928, tr. 1957)