Spencer Heath Archive

Item 2092.

Marginal pencilings in Percy W. Bridgman, The Nature of Physical Theory (New York, Dover Publications, 1936) Writings by Bridgman are in quotes, comments by Heath in italics.

No date

 

Original is missing.

 

 

 

/Pencilings inside front cover indicating pages and subject matter/

 

Mathematics subjective, experience objective   61

Mathematics without physical counterpart      116

 

 

 

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/”We have seen how meaningless is the contention that principles exist independent of the mind in which they are formulated. What Jeans might have said is that Man is a mathematician, and reflected that it is no accident that he forms nature in his own image.”/

 

 

He is formed in Nature’s image.