Conventionality and reality

DOI10.1007/S10701-019-00294-8MaRDI QIDQ2286516zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Pieter Thyssen

Publication date 22 January 2020

Published in Foundations of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s10701-019-00294-8

zbMATH Keywords

conventionality of simultaneityeternalismpresentismRietdijk-Putnam argumentspecial relativityWeingard-Petkov argument

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophy of mathematics (00A30) History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) History of relativity and gravitational theory (83-03) Special relativity (83A05)

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