Fine's Fragmentalist Interpretation of Special Relativity.
In 'Tense and Reality', Kit Fine () proposed a novel way to think about realism about tense in the metaphysics of time. In particular, he explored two non-standard forms of realism about tense ('external relativism' and 'fragmentalism'), arguing that they are to be preferred over standard forms of r...
| Publicado en: | Nous (0029-4624) Vol. 51; no. 4; pp. 871 - 884 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Dec2017
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