Does Temperature have a Metric Structure?
Is there anything more to temperature than the ordering of things from colder to hotter? Are there also facts, for example, about how much hotter (twice as hot, three times as hot...) one thing is than another? There certainly are—but the only strong justification for this claim comes from statis...
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| author | Skow, Bradford |
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| description | Is there anything more to temperature than the ordering of things from colder
to hotter? Are there also facts, for example, about how much hotter (twice as
hot, three times as hot...) one thing is than another? There certainly are—but
the only strong justification for this claim comes from statistical mechanics.
What we knew about temperature before the advent of statistical mechanics
(what we knew about it from thermodynamics) provided only weak reasons
to believe it. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/619752022-09-30T22:38:29Z Does Temperature have a Metric Structure? Skow, Bradford Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy Skow, Bradford Skow, Bradford Is there anything more to temperature than the ordering of things from colder to hotter? Are there also facts, for example, about how much hotter (twice as hot, three times as hot...) one thing is than another? There certainly are—but the only strong justification for this claim comes from statistical mechanics. What we knew about temperature before the advent of statistical mechanics (what we knew about it from thermodynamics) provided only weak reasons to believe it. 2011-03-25T20:08:13Z 2011-03-25T20:08:13Z 2011-07 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 0031-8248 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/61975 Skow, Bradford. "Does Temperature have a Metric Structure?." forthcoming in Philosophy of Science, 78 (July 2011) pp. 472–489. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7892-4540 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/660304 Philosophy of Science Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ application/pdf Philosophy of Science Association MIT web domain |
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