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Space and Time : a Priori and A Posteriori Studies.
The articles in this volume focus on the ontology of space and time, including the themes of substantivalism vs. relationism, continuity vs. discreteness, and time travel. In the current debate on these issues, there is a tendency to separate too rigidly between a priori and a posteriori approaches....
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin :
De Gruyter,
2014.
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| Colección: | Philosophische Analyse ;
Bd. 54. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The articles in this volume focus on the ontology of space and time, including the themes of substantivalism vs. relationism, continuity vs. discreteness, and time travel. In the current debate on these issues, there is a tendency to separate too rigidly between a priori and a posteriori approaches. This volume aims to bridge the gap between these two perspectives, showing the fruitfulness of combining them to the greatest extent possible. |
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| Notas: | Editors' Introduction; On Russell's Metaphysics of Time; Weak Discernibility and the Identity of Spacetime Points; A Structural and Foundational Analysis of Euclid's Plane Geometry: The Case Study of Continuity; Can the Mathematical Structure of Space Be Known A Priori? A Tale of Two Postulates; Gunkology and Pointilism: Two Mutually Supervening Models of the Region-Based and the Point-Based Theory of the Infinite Two-Dimensional Continuum; This Moment and the Next Moment; T x W Epistemic Modality; Towards a Theory of Multidimensional Time Travel; Gödelian Time Travel and Weyl's Principle. About the Authors. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (282 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9783110369144 3110369141 9783110345490 3110345498 9783110348927 3110348926 9781306935890 130693589X 3110554747 9783110554748 |