Percy Williams Bridgman Quote

It seems to me that in any operational view of the meaning of natural concepts the notion of time must be used as a primitive concept, which cannot be analysed but must be accepted, so that it is meaningless to speak of a reversal of the direction of time.


Reflections of a Physicist, Chapter 8 (p. 165), Philosophical Library. 1950


It seems to me that in any operational view of the meaning of natural concepts the notion of time must be used as a primitive concept, which cannot...

It seems to me that in any operational view of the meaning of natural concepts the notion of time must be used as a primitive concept, which cannot...

It seems to me that in any operational view of the meaning of natural concepts the notion of time must be used as a primitive concept, which cannot...

It seems to me that in any operational view of the meaning of natural concepts the notion of time must be used as a primitive concept, which cannot...