Structural Humility.

In this article I discuss various humility theses about individuals and intrinsic properties as discussed by authors such as David Lewis. I argue that we should accept a similar humility thesis about the world's space-time structure regardless of which metaphysics of space-time we accept. I argue th...

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Publicado en:Philosophy of Science Vol. 88; no. 5; pp. 860 - 871
Autor principal: Davis, Cruz Austin
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Publicado: Cambridge University Press Dec2021
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