As Jammer discusses in his next chapter, the thesis that any value of e within the range given by Reichenbach is consistent with the physics underlying SR, and thus any specific choice is purely conventional, received much attention after a number of publications by Grunbaum (see, for example, Grunbaum (1973), Chapter 12). Jammer (p. 200) notes that, whereas Reichenbach’s conventionalist position is grounded on epistemological considerations, Grunbaum’s is based on ontological ones. Rather than pursuing this issue here, let me turn to the still ongoing debate about whether simultaneity is or is not a matter of convention.
As Jammer discusses in his next chapter, the thesis that any value of e within the range given by Reichenbach is consistent with the physics underlying SR, and thus any specific choice is purely conventional, received much attention after a number of publications by Grunbaum (see, for example, Grunbaum (1973), Chapter 12). Jammer (p. 200) notes that, whereas Reichenbach’s conventionalist position is grounded on epistemological considerations, Grunbaum’s is based on ontological ones. Rather than pursuing this issue here, let me turn to the still ongoing debate about whether simultaneity is or is not a matter of convention.
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