From change to spacetime: an eleatic journey

DOI10.1007/S10699-012-9297-4MaRDI QIDQ360435zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Gustavo E. Romero

Publication date 27 August 2013

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1205.0804, http://hdl.handle.net/11336/4130

zbMATH Keywords

spacetimechangeeventsformal ontologypre-socratics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75) Continuous lattices and posets, applications (06B35)

Abstract: I present a formal ontological theory where the basic building blocks of the world can be either things or events. In any case, the result is a Parmenidean worldview where change is not a global property. What we understand by change manifests as asymmetries in the pattern of the world-lines that constitute 4-dimensional existents. I maintain that such a view is in accord with current scientific knowledge.

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