Geometric possibility
Relationalists deny that space is ontologically prior to matter and seek to ground all claims about the structure of space in facts about actual and possible configurations of matter. Thus, many relationalists maintain that to say that space is infinite is to say that certain sorts of infinite arrays of material points are possible (even if, in fact, the world contains only a finite amount of matter). The author investigates the notion of geometric possibility that relationalists rely upon. He …
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- Full title :Geometric possibility / Gordon Belot.
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Relationalists deny that space is ontologically prior to matter and seek to ground all claims about the structure of space in facts about actual and possible configurations of matter. Thus, many relationalists maintain that to say that space is infinite is to say that certain sorts of infinite arrays of material points are possible (even if, in fact, the world contains only a finite amount of matter). The author investigates the notion of geometric possibility that relationalists rely upon. He examines the prospects for adapting to the geometric case the standard philosophical accounts of the related notion of physical possibility, with particular emphasis on Humean, primitivist, and necessitarian accounts of physical and geometric possibility.
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- Publication Date:2011.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:Oxford
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2011.
The Physical Object
- Description:x, 219 pages ; : 23 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780199595327, 0199595321
- oclc:ocn687683286
- LC Classification:BD632
- Dewey Decimal:115
Table of Contents
Possible structures of space -- Spatial structure for relationalists -- Best-system approaches -- Primitivist approaches -- Necessitarian approaches.
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