Reflections on the Is: Physics Penetrates Ontology

Janik, J.

doi:10.12693/APhysPolA.112.S-189

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Acta Physica Polonica A

2007 | 112 | S | S-189-S-191

Article title

Reflections on the Is: Physics Penetrates Ontology

Authors

J. Janik

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Abstracts

When considering questions such as What it means that something is? when? where? and how? we may for some purposes say that we are concentrating entirely on is - sometime, somewhere, somehow. This illustrates a transition from physical abstraction to ontological abstraction.

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Acta Physica Polonica A

Year

2007

Volume

112

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S-189-S-191

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published

2007-12

received

2007-10-26

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J. Janik

H. Niewodniczański Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Radzikowskiego 152, 31-342 Kraków, Poland

References

1. J.A. Janik, Concepts of Physics, 3, 137, 2006
2. G. Greenstein, A.G. Zajonc, The Quantum Challenge, Jones and Barlet Publ., Boston 1997
3. J.D. Caputo, Heidegger and Aquinas, Fordham University Press, New York 1982
4. D.S. Sivia, W.I.F. David, K.S. Knight, S.F. Gull, Physica D, 66, 234, 1993
5. Thomas Aquinas, Super Physicorum IV, 17
6. Edith Stein, Endliches und ewiges Sein, Herder, Freiburg 1986, p. 60

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Publication order reference

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DOI

10.12693/APhysPolA.112.S-189

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