Physical Reality Construction or Discovery? - 9783031870897

Physical Reality Construction or Discovery?An Introduction to the Methodology and Aims of Physics\nAuthor(s): Michael Grodzicki\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Springer International Publishing AG, Switzerland\nImprint: Springer International Publishing AG\nISBN-13: 9783031870897, 978-3031870897\nSynopsis\nThis book offers a well-grounded account of the methodology of physics, the structure of physical knowledge and theories, and in particular of the relations between theory and experience. An important feature of the book is that all its essential conclusions are elucidated with the help of representative examples from theoretical, molecular and solid state physics.\n\nThe comprehensively revised new edition provides, beside further examples and additions, numerous text restructurings and shortenings that focus on the basic argumentation. This particularly applies to the section on theoretical methodology, the section on axiomatization and the conception of closed theories, the secti.