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Fenalosa. Ernest: attractcd to Buddhism, 290

Ferdinand. archduke: assassination hclpcd prccipitatc World War I, 294

Fcycrabcnd, Paul K.: mcntioncd, 213-

214

Fictive-hypothctical science. Sec As »/ philosophy

Fischer, Louis: mcntioncd, 246

Fischer, Max: reworked Mach’s textbooks, 140

Fizcau, Armand: mcntioncd, 19

Flamm, Ludwig (Boltzinann’s son-in-law): dcscribed Boltzmann’* lecturcs, 208; conflict bctwccn Mach and Boltz-inann from a studcnt's point of view, 209; Boltzmann‘s suffcring just bcfore his dcath, 212

Flammarion, Cainillc: Dvo?ik argucs with Mach ovcr his rcliginus ideas, 291-292; bricf dcscription of his ideas, 355

Florcncc: Mach briefly wanted to retire thcrc, 180

Foppl, August: skeptical of Einstein's theory in a lelter to Mach, 263

Forcc:

—(ar. understood in physics): Ncwton's distinction bctwccn icsidcnt and dynamie forcc (i.c., bctwccn inertial mass defined in physical ternu and forcc as mass limes accclcration), 92.    357;

Newton'* distinction bctwccn physical and rnathcmatical definition, 92, 93; Mach’s opposition to Ncw:on’s con-ccpt of forcc if mass is defined in tcrmi cithcr of his physical (resident forcc, ontological) or of his tnathe-matical (mass as ąuantity of matter) definitions, 80, 93, 96-99, 120, 237, 245, 254; Mach'* rcjcction of forces as causcs in favor of rnathcmatical func-tions, u, 171, 177. 298; Mach's at-tempt to reduce dynamics 10 kinemat-ics, 98; Mach’s influence on Hertz, 120; on Cldlord and Russell, 199; on Jau-mann, 207: on Einstein, 254; Buddhist opposition to forces as causcs, 292, 296, 298. See also Dynamics and mass

—(in the icnse of pressuring or manhan-dling pcoplc or using vio!cncc againit thern): Mach’* opposition to, 7-8, 37, 234, 296; failurc of Mach and his fol-lowcrs to understand forcc in a practi-cal way, 145-147. 232, 245. 394-299

France: Mach's philosophical influence in, 181, i94-*97. 295

Frank, Philipp (Gcrman-Amcrican physi-cist, philosopher, and biographer): in-flueneed by Mach, 141, 183, i8z; popu-lanzcd Mach's vicws, 183 (see bibliog-raphy); a Boltzmannizcd Machist, 214; argucd tbat Bohzmann was a followcr of Mach, 213; argucd that Vicnna student* wcrc followcrs of Mach and Bohzmann, 209-210; related Mach's vicws to Nietzsche, 123; dcscribed Jaumann'* form of Machism, 268-269; visitcd Mach, 253, 263-264; defended Mach against Planck, 222-223; be-liesed Mach supported Einstein's theory, 253; tried to clarify Einstcin’s theory for Mach, 253, 263-264; ac-ccptcd Einstein’* spccial theory but bothcrcil by light constancy. 250-251; dcscribed Einstcin’s visit to Mach, 253, 351; mcntioncd, 168, 216-217, 256,

:6q 270, 275. 204. 304

Franz Joscf (Emperor of Austria): mcntioncd, 13, 154, 256

Fred, W. (Austrian liicrary figurę and former student of Mach): dcscribed Mach’s influence on Yienncsc young pcoplc. cspccially his drnial of the ego, 155; dcscribed Buddhist usc of Mnch’s writings in Burma and Ccylon to help spread their ideas, 788-289

Freud, Sigmund: probahly influeneed by Mach, 68-69; rcad Mach's Analysis ol Sensasions. 71; liked Mach'* treatment of drcains, 71; ncver acknowlcdgcd debt to Mach, 72; a student of Bren-tano, 6?; signed Berlin positivist mani-festo (1911), 190

Functions, rnathcmatical: Mnch'$ prefer-ence for ovcr causal cxplanation, 7, 8, 203; Mach influeneed by Herbart and Fcchncr, 29: sometimes understood as causa! cuplanation, 85; will rcplacc all theories, 104; cxhaust knowledgc of rcality, 298; intcrnal goal of science, 84. 177: nltimate in scientific cconomy, 171; basis of Mach's ncw theory of psy-cłiophysical parallclism, 227; Mach's influence on James, 177; on Carus, 129; on Locb, 131; on Poincarć, 195; on Clifford, Hertz, 3nd Russell, 199; on many New Rcalists, 207; Mach’t vicsvs and thosc of Balt/mann com-pared, 215; mcntioncd, 11, 133, 149,

Inder

164,    168, 244, 316-317. See also

Causjl explanation

Galilei. Galileo: favored understand-rcality science ovcr Ecllarrmnc's de-scribc-and-rclatc-the-appcarances science, 90, 101-102, 196, 245; men-tioned, xi, 179, 306, 357. See also Causal rcalism; Cominon sensc; Repre-sentationalism

Galton, Francis: mcntioncd, 125 Gas dynamics: Mach's work on shock waves, 105-115

Gascs, kinctic theory of: Boltzmann*s work in and defentes of, 87-90, 207, 216, 218; Mach‘s opposition to it, 89, «47. 253

Gauss, J. C. F.: mcntioncd, 260 Geometry:

—Euclidcan: Mach agreed with Newton that the spacc of sense hus ody threc dimcnsions, 265; a toal to relate the appcaranccs, 65: Mach’s Gcsult inter-pretation of, 17: Machs oppoiition to the way Eudid's book is organized, 138; mcntioncd, 90, 260, 265, 321 —Non-Eudidcan: Mach’s anticipation of Riemann, 66-67, 260; Mach influeneed by Herbart, 27: Mach's conception of meiric spacc, 66; Mach’s theory of N-dimensions as an anticipation of modern quantum theory, 310-312; non-Eudidcan geometry used in generał theory of rclatisity, 254-255 Mach*s effort to understand work of Einstein and Minkowski, 260-264: Mach*s opposition to non-Eudidcan geometry in physics, 66, 260-261. 265. 266-267, 275, 312, 316; Mach’s opposition reenforeed by Dinglcr, 264, 265, 267; Mach’s opposition to the atomie theory, 67, 321; argument of Poincare and Carnap on the geometrie status of naturę, 303; mentsoncd ix, 318

Gcorge, Lloyd: mcntioncd, 294 Gerber, Paul: Mach interested in his at-tempt to link gravitation with clectro-magnetism, 262-264, 267 Germany: Machs philoiophical influence in, 116-124, 129-130, 157-158. 181-182, 190-194, 207, 218, 222-223, 229. 248-249. 254-256. 311-3*7 Gestalt psychology: Mach’* contributions

to, 17, 22, 47-48; Mach's attempt to interpret Gestalt ąuilitics in terms of senutions considercd detrirrcnuJ, 4?; mcntioncd, 228, 231 Gibbs, Willard: mcntioncd, 158 Gicklhorn, Joief: mcntioncd, 326 Gilbert, Leo: criticizcd rclatisity theory in a letter to Mach who presumably had bccn dcfending it, 276 Glass experii7ienw: Mach's work men-tioned, 106

Godeł, Kurt: associated with Vicnna Cir-clc, 302

Goethe, J. W.: mcntioncd, 22, 40, 59 Goltz, F. L.: work on semicircular canals and cquilibrium influeneed Mach, 53 Gomperz, Heinrich (Austrian philosopher and son of Theodor Gomperz): veiy impressed by Mach, 150, 160-t 61; played significant role in Mach’s transfer to Vienna, 150-152; uitiol of Brentano, 161; sersed as a bridge bctwccn Mach aml the Vicnaa Cirdc of the 1920*1,    159; possibly influeneed

Rudolf Carnap, 161; mcntioncd, So, 300, 301

Gomperz, Theodor (positivi« philosopher and Greek scholar): rccommcndcd Mach for Vicnna professorship, 150-152; meutioncd, 80. :6i, 165 Gooch, G. P.: mcntioncd, 40 Gorky, Maxim: sympathized with Bogda-nov and Machism, 241-242 Graz (Austria): Mach taught thcrc for threc ycars, 24; Mach married Ludorica Marussig, 41; hii wifci background. 328; mcntioncd, 24-25 Grillparzcr, Franz: mentioneJ. 40

Haai, Carl: mcntioncd, 293 Mabair, K.: co-authorrd one of Mach*s tc.etbooks for sccondary schools, 139 HacckcI, Ernst (biologist-philosophcr who hclpcd spread Darwin*s ideas in Germany): Mach shared his opposition to mind-matter dualism m philosophy, 193; became president of the German Monistic Socicty, 193; mcntioncd, 260 Halin, Hans: Mach‘s philosophical influence on, 183-184. 301-302; insited Schlick to Vienna, 302; coaducted sem-inar on \Vittgcnstcin*s Tnetatus. 307; mcntioncd, 304

Hahn, Liii (student of Boltzmann and

387