Reply to comment by J Walter on 'On the redundancy of the zeroth law of thermodynamics'

Abstract

For original paper, see ibid., vol.22, p.341 (1989). It is pointed out that Walter's criticism of Caratheodory's principle is misplaced since the principle is irrelevant to the original argument; and the claim that the characterisation of the class of physical systems admitted for consideration already involves the notion of temperature is rejected.