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Notes to Intertheory Relations in Physics

Notes

[1.] That this is a paradigm example of reduction practically has the status of dogma in the philosophical literature on reduction. Unfortunately, this is entirely misguided. See Sklar’s Physics and Chance for an extended discussion.

[2.] For a good introduction to the subtleties involved see Sklar, 1967, pp. 118--121.

[3.] It is best to think of this limit as (v/c)2 arrow 0 since (v/c)2 is a dimensionless quantity and so this limit will not depend on the units used to measure the velocity.



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