Laws beyond spacetime.
Quantum gravity’s suggestion that spacetime may be emergent and so only exist contingently would force a radical reconception of extant analyses of laws of nature. Humeanism presupposes a spatiotemporal mosaic of particular matters of fact on which laws supervene; primitivism and dispositionalism co...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 202; no. 3; pp. 1 - 25 |
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Springer Nature
Sep2023
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