TY  - BOOK
AU  - Margenau,Henry
TI  - The nature of physical reality: a philosophy of modern physics 
U1  - ARCH YNDC 110 M328N 
PY  - 1950///
CY  - New York
PB  - McGraw-Hill
KW  - Physics
KW  - Philosophy
N1  - Includes bibliographies and indexes; Preliminary survey of reality -- Ways of arriving at reality -- What is immediately given? -- Departure from the immediate; constructs -- Metaphysical requirements on constructs -- Empirical confirmation -- Space and time -- System, observables, and states -- Physics of discrete systems -- Physics of continua -- Thermodynamics -- The role of definitions in science -- Probability -- Statistical mechanics -- Reality: a first outline -- The breakdown of physical models -- Basic ideas of quantum mechanics -- Uncertainty and measurements -- Causality -- The exclusion principle -- The contours of reality
ER  -