Relativity in a Fundamentally Absolute World

Philosophical Perspectives 36 (1):305-328 (2022)
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This paper develops a view on which: (a) all fundamental facts are absolute, (b) some facts do not supervene on the fundamental facts, and (c) only relative facts fail to supervene on the fundamental facts.

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