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In its first part, this paper shows why a recently made attempt to reduce the special theory of relativity to Newtonian kinematics is bound to fail. In the second part, we propose a differentiated notion of incommensurability which enables us to amend the contention that the special theory of relatively and Newtonian kinematics are “incommensurable”.
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Balsiger, F., Burri, A. Sind die klassische Mechanik und die spezielle Relativitätstheorie kommensurabel?. Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 21, 157–162 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01801420
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01801420