Talk:Ernst Mach

Marx's Influence

Can anyone cite the influence of Marx on Mach? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.100.167.173 (talk) 03:06, 14 March 2005‎

Crickets96.235.173.81 (talk) 19:18, 6 September 2020 (UTC)Hans Jetzt

Content removal

I've reverted extensive content removal by 64.21.98.130. I see no acceptable reason for such an action, and 64.21.98.130 doesn't provide any. Furthermore, this IP seems to be used for vandalism (see past edits). I've posted a warning on the IP's talk page. // Pathoschild 12:05 29 September 2005 —Preceding undated comment added 16:09 & :16, 29 September 2005‎

Machism please?

I would like to see a section here on Machism as it is antagonized in Marxist criticism, cf. Lukacs' 'What is Orthodox Marxism?' Also for the time being the search term 'Machism' should redirect here (to Ernst Mach). (I'm not sure how to do this on my own.)— Preceding unsigned comment added by Allisonrung (talk) 11:08, 10 October 2006

Was he an atheist?

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Starnold (talk) 20:09, 26 February 2007‎

(Catholicism dubious)

I have heard that he rejected the existence of God. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.216.40.48 (talk) 18:36, 11 May 2007‎

Can anyone cite his belief in Catholicism? If not, it should be removed from his religious beliefs, and positivism is not a religion, so it should be removed too. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.162.66.184 (talk) 22:04, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

I'm removing the category that he was a Roman Catholic, since he was said to be an Atheist. "And Mach, in personal conviction, was a socialist and an atheist." R. S. Cohen, Raymond J. Seeger, Ernst Mach, Physicist and Philosopher (1975), page 158. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ninmacer20 (talk) 19:09, 3 April 2012‎ - Ninmacer20— Preceding unsigned comment added by Ninmacer20 (talk) 19:11, 3 April 2012‎

(Verification of his beliefs)

You must add text to the article discussing this along with the citation in a footnote when adding the category. Don't make other editors do the work for you, do it yourself. Yworo (talk) 18:37, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

   Evidently Yworo is paying Nin to edit, or at least to accept Yw's advice on editing. I'd like to get in on that deal too, tho i'll require a formal contract, and evidence of the ability to come up with the money they agree to pay me. Pending satisfaction of those conditions, i for one will continue to add categories even when i think the other work that's on my mind is more important than my personally adding the supporting content and a ref.
   Yw has made it clear here that there is a disagreement, and i applaud that contribution. I won't criticize them for being vague about whether they reverted, or merely objected here to, Nin's contrib (tho it seems likely Yw could have notified us which applies, more easily than any of us can go check it), because only Nin is in a position to make judgements about where to put their effort.
   (I have occasionally referred on talk pages to "my assignment editor", and it may be time to go on record that i mean, by such references, "... if i get around to feel like taking care of it myself".)
--Jerzy•t 04:17, 7 November 2015 (UTC)

Nationality

He spent some years in Vienna and spoke german, but he wasn't Austrian. He was born in Czechia, spent great part of his life there, he spoke Czech and majority of people who lived in Czechia are described as Czechs here on Wikipedia, even if Czech Republic didn't exist at times. In fact Czechs didn't even exist from 17th century to 1918 at all - everybody was Austrian - but it's inappropriate to called him Austrian nowadays. He was Czech or more precisely German speaking Moravian. 46.135.30.18 (talk) 21:35, 26 February 2023 (UTC)

"Czech Republic didn't exist at times. In fact Czechs didn't even exist from 17th century to 1918 at all - everybody was Austrian" per MOS:NATIONALITY, that's what we use. Fountains of Bryn Mawr (talk) 11:54, 10 April 2024 (UTC)

I don't agree with your argument. You said yourself that the Czech Republic didn't exist at the time, so how could he have had Czech citizenship? People in Austria-Hungary did not have a citizenship in the modern sense, they were subjects of the Austrian Emperor and their identity was tied to their region and language. I myself come from South Tyrol, which at the time was part of Austria-Hungary as well and now is part of Italy, but it wouldn't be correct to say that people in South Tyrol back then were Italian, because the region later became Italian.

Furthermore, certainly Czech-speakers in Moravia identified as belonging to the Czech community, but Mach was a native German-speaker, as were many people who lived in Moravia and Bohemia.

Your argument is anachronistic. He died before the dissolution of the empire. Asenoner (talk) 21:54, 13 August 2024 (UTC)