Knox's inertial spacetime functionalism (and a better alternative).

Eleanor Knox has argued that our concept of spacetime applies to whichever structure plays a certain functional role in the laws (the role of determining local inertial structure). I raise two objections to this inertial functionalism. First, it depends on a prior assumption about which coordinate s...

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Publicado en:Synthese Vol. 199; no. 2; pp. 277 - 299
Autor principal: Baker, David John
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Publicado: Springer Nature Dec2021 Supplement 2
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