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PHYSICS AND PHILOSOPHY
the cosmological discourse.
Keywords: Cosmology, history of modern cosmology, science, universe, Kant
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During the last fty years or so, cosmology has developed greatly and is today recognized to be a mature [...] de/
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Helge Kragh: The Controversial Universe
Figure 1: The original cover of Kant (1981).
is contradictory, and therefore it cannot be an object of possible [...] claimed to be valid in a cosmological sense. Clausius' canonical formulation of the laws was as follows: 1. The energy of the universe is constant. 2. The entropy of the universe tends toward a maximum. William …