Eliminating Spacetime.
A number of approaches to quantum gravity (QG) seem to imply that spacetime does not exist. Philosophers are quick to point out, however, that the loss of spacetime should not be regarded as total. Rather, we should interpret these approaches as ones that threaten the fundamentality but not the exis...
| Publicado en: | Erkenntnis Vol. 88; no. 3; pp. 1289 - 1309 |
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Springer Nature
Mar2023
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