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Feynman Lectures I 232 (German edition)
Absolute/Movement/Absoluteness/The Absolute/Philosophy/Feynman/FeynmanVsPhilosophers: it is not meaningless to speak of absolute velocity.
Our inability to detect absolute motion comes from experiments - not merely from pure thought.
>Absoluteness/Berkeley, >Absoluteness/Field, >Absoluteness/Fraassen,
>Absoluteness/Lewis, >Absoluteness/Putnam.
Even in Newton's time, everything was already relative. - No one cared, because only Maxwell's equations seemed to make it possible to measure speed from within.
>Relativism, >Relativity theory.
I 233
It is true that absolute motion is meaningless. - It is meaningless, because it cannot be proven. - Not the other way around. - It is meaningless, because it cannot be defined.
>Meaning, >Definability, >Definitions.
Feynman: Some philosophers argue that motion cannot be proven without looking at the outside world. - That is not true. - Only linear constant movement cannot be proven without consideration for the outside world. - Example: Internal evidence of Earth's rotation: Foucault's pendulum.

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