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A METAPHYSICAL INTRODUCTION TO A RELATIONAL THEORY OF SPACE.

The article discusses an introduction to a theory of space, which is relational as well as metaphysical. Relational theories can be of two kinds: pure and impure relational theories. Pure ones reduce the spatial things like points of space and shapes of material objects and non-spatial things. Impur...

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Published in:Philosophical Quarterly Vol. 39; no. 155; pp. 200 - 221
Main Author: Newman, Andrew
Format: Article
Published: Oxford University Press / USA Apr89
Subjects:
Spacetime
Metaphysics
Mathematics
Space sciences
Geometry
Philosophy
Absolute geometry
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