The nature of physical reality
By: Henry Margenau
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Published: 1950
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 479
Subjects: Philosophy; Physics; Fisica (Filosofia)
Notes: "McGraw-Hill paperbacks."

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Ch. 1 preliminary survey of reality; title: Ch. 2 ways of arriving at reality; title: Ch. 3 what is immediately given?; title: Ch. 4 departure from the immediate; constructs; title: Ch. 5 metaphysical requirements on constructs; title: Ch. 6 empirical confirmation; title: Ch. 7 space and time; title: Ch. 8 systems, observables, and states; title: Ch. 9 physics of discrete systems; title: Ch. 10 physics of continua; title: Ch. 11 thermodynamics; title: Ch. 12 the role of definitions in science; title: Ch. 13 probability; title: Ch. 14 statistical mechanics; title: Ch. 15 reality: a first outline; title: Ch. 16 the breakdown of physical models; title: Ch. 17 basic ideas of quantum mechanics; title: Ch. 18 uncertainty and measurements; title: Ch. 19 causality; title: Ch. 20 the exclusion principle; title: Ch. 21 the contours of reality.