Minkowski space-time: A glorious non-entity

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In Dennis Geert Bernardus Johan Dieks (ed.), The ontology of spacetime. Boston: Elsevier. pp. 67--89 (2006)
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It is argued that Minkowski space-time cannot serve as the deep structure within a ``constructive'' version of the special theory of relativity, contrary to widespread opinion in the philosophical community.

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original Brown, Harvey R.; Pooley, Oliver (2006) "Minkowski space-time: A glorious non-entity". In Dieks, Dennis Geert Bernardus Johan, The ontology of spacetime, pp. 67--89: Elsevier (2006)

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