Sideways music.
There is a popular theory in the metaphysics of time according to which time is one of four similar dimensions that make up a single manifold that is appropriately called spacetime. One consequence of this thesis is that changing an object's orientation in the manifold does not change its intrinsic...
| Published in: | Analysis Vol. 80; no. 1; pp. 51 - 60 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Jan2020
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