Laraudogoitia, Jon Perez (2025) RESCHER'S APORETICS AND A ROAD TO THE VOIGT TRANSFORMATION. [Preprint]

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Abstract

With the classical distinction between context of discovery and context of justification considered by many to have been overcome, heuristics (understood in a broad sense) has increasingly rekindled the interest of philosophers of science. Building on this trend, a heuristic approach to the Voigt transformation (based on Rescher's Aporetics) is first presented - an issue on which there seem to be no precedents in the literature. Second, the value of this approach is defended from a philosophical (and, indirectly, pedagogical) viewpoint. By using this approach, several conceptual links in the theory of space-time can be highlighted (links which go unnoticed in classical hypothetical-deductive methods leading to the Voigt transformation). In particular an interesting connection with the Lorentz transformation becomes apparent.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Laraudogoitia, Jon Perez jon.perez@ehu.es 0000-0002-9003-4946
Keywords:	Rescher's Aporetics; Heuristics; Galileo Transformation; Voigt Transformation; Lorentz transformation.
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory
Depositing User:	Dr. Jon Perez Laraudogoitia
Date Deposited:	11 Sep 2025 11:00
Last Modified:	11 Sep 2025 11:00
Item ID:	26615
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory
Date:	10 September 2025
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/26615

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