  Observing the early years of the 1920's, it is possible to detect a fracture
in the perception of relativity theory in Argentina, characterized by the
publication of a series of strictly scientific studies on this theory, in
parallel with presentations aimed at the general culture. In this work, we
attempt to relate this fracture with the advances made by Anti-Positivist ideas
in the higher echelons of Argentine culture. The new philosophical approach
configured a new vision of science that questioned the traditional methodology
of the experimental sciences and attributed to the theoretical sciences a more
prominent role than they had in the past. In this work, we present a detailed
account of a 1923 paper by Jos\'e B. Collo and Te\'ofilo Isnardi, two young
Argentine physicists trained in Germany, which is a representative contribution
to this new trend.
