General Relativity as a Collection of Collections of Models

DOI10.1007/978-3-030-64187-0_17MaRDI QIDQ5015982

John Byron Manchak

Publication date: 10 December 2021

Published in: Hajnal Andréka and István Németi on Unity of Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/14882/1/graacocom.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

spacetime; singularities; modality; general relativity; pluralism; inextendibility

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

03-XX: Mathematical logic and foundations

83-XX: Relativity and gravitational theory

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