Adam Smith and Albert Einstein: The Aesthetic Principle of Truth
- 1 January 1989
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of the History of Economic Thought
- Vol. 11 (2) , 222-237
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s1042771600005950
Abstract
I argue for an aesthetic criterion of truth through the explication of the epistemologies of Adam Smith and Albert Einstein–the progenitors of modern economics and physics [cf. Skinner, 1979:ch. 2; Holton, 1968, 1979]. The aesthetic criterion supersedes objectivist and relativist epistemologies.Keywords
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