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Special Relativity
During Moritz Schlick's work on special relativity, he would go on to write an essay that would feature his philosophy and understanding of science and falsifiability through means of empirical evidence, arguing that physical evidence, not observational, be the simplest answer. This work would be in tandem with Einstein and his work on the Theory of General Relativity. -
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The General Theory of Knowledge
Primarily being composed in 1916, with subsequent revisions after it's initial publishing, the General Theory was noted for it's handling of concepts through mathematical equations, instead of the "a priori" knowledge, or intuition, which could not be falsified and deemed metaphysical. Oberdan, Thomas, "Moritz Schlick", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2017 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2017/entries/schlick/. -
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Ethics
While working on his book, problem of Ethics, Moritz Schlick sought to define logical positivism , to find the truth of a topic or subject at hand and leave no room for the metaphysical. This, coupled with talks with the Vienna Circle, would be discussed over works such as Wittgenstein's Tractatus.These works and discussions would become the base for much of what logical positivity would be and represent. -
Untimely Death
June 22, 1936, Moritz Schlick was shot by former student, Johann Nelböck. Though he had been admitted to a an institution for paranoid schizophrenia, the court declared him compos compos mentis, of sound mind. Nelböck would argue to the court that it was Schlick's philosophy that had driven him to such actions. -
Moritz Schlick - Citations
Oberdan, Thomas, "Moritz Schlick", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2017 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2017/entries/schlick/. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moritz_Schlick https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VR5q2ugM60E