Reflections on the Is: Physics Penetrates Ontology

• Authors: J. Janik
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

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.

• Publisher: Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta Physica Polonica A
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 112
• Issue: S
• Pages: S-189-S-191

Dates

published

2007-12

received

2007-10-26

Contributors

author

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
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• 5. Thomas Aquinas, Super Physicorum IV, 17
• 6. Edith Stein, Endliches und ewiges Sein, Herder, Freiburg 1986, p. 60

Identifiers

DOI

10.12693/APhysPolA.112.S-189