Can We Dispense with Space-Time?
PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1984:33 - 90 (1984)
| Abstract | This paper is concerned with the debate between substantival and relational theories of space-time, and discusses two difficulties that beset the relationalist: a difficulty posed by field theories, and another difficulty (discussed at greater length) called the problem of quantities. A main purpose of the paper is to argue that possibility can not always be used as a surrogate of ontology, and that in particular that there is no hope of using possibility to solve the problem of quantities. | |||||||||
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