Space-time constructivism vs. modal provincialism: Or, how special relativistic theories needn't show Minkowski chronogeometry
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Already in 1835 Lobachevski entertained the possibility of multiple (one might say “rival”) geometries of the same type playing a role. This idea of rival geometries has reappeared from time to time (including Poincare and several 20th century authors) but had yet to become a key idea in space-time philosophy prior to Brown's
If one happens to philosophize about a theory outside the canon, space-time realism sheds little light on the spatio-temporal behavior of matter. Worse, it gives the
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1879-2502