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METHODOLOGICAL PROBLEMS OF STUDYING MAXWELL’S SYNTHESIS OF OPTICS AND ELECTROMAGNETISM
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Nugaev Rinat Magdievich
Volga Region State Academy of Physical Culture, Sport and Tourism
Abstract. The article examines how the modern researches of Maxwell’s synthesis of optics and electromagnetic theory contribute to solving the following problems: 1. Is nature really so simple to permit the theories integrating different phenomena? 2. How does the real synthesis of several theories differ from their mere conjunction? 3. Why is the synthesis of theories an epistemological advantage, not a shortcoming?
Key words and phrases: эпистемология, Кант, Максвелл, синтез, оптика, электромагнетизм, epistemology, Kant, Maxwell, synthesis, optics, electromagnetism
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