operationalism

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In 'Cartographing Gravity' (2026) the organizing terms 'conatus' and 'potentia' are imported from Spinoza's Ethics to name inertia and gravitation, with conatus also traced to a rival non-Spinozist sense in Hobbes

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-31 · physics, philosophy-of-physics, spinoza, conatus, operationalism
De Haro and Elizalde (2026) reconstruct linearized general relativity from 'conatus' (proper-time extremization) and 'potentia' (gravitational modulation of clock rate), treating geometry as a derived synthesis rather than a starting postulate

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-31 · physics, general-relativity, philosophy-of-physics, operationalism, equivalence-principle
Cartographing Gravity: Operational Maps, the Conatus of Proper Time, and the Potentia of Matter (de Haro & Elizalde, 2026)

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-10-26 · physics, general-relativity, philosophy-of-physics, operationalism, spinoza