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>@ W. V. Quine, From a Logical Point of View (Harvard University Press, 1961), Second edition; The Ways of Paradox and Other Essays (Harvard University Press, 1966).
>@ I have compared the philosophies of the quantum and relativity theories in: M.
Sachs, Einstein Versus Bohr (Open Court Publishing Co., 1988).
>@ H. Chadwick, translator, Saint Augustine Confessions (Oxford University Press, 1991).
>@ S. Pines, translator, M. Maimonides: The Guide of the Perplexed (University of Chicago Press, 1963), p. 294. I have discussed these ideas further, in the context of physics, in: M. Sachs: “Maimonides, Spinoza and the Field Concept in Physics”, Jour. Hist. Ideas 37, 125 (1976).
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