Space, time and parsimony.
This paper argues that all of the standard theories about the divisions of space and time can benefit from, and may need to rely on, parsimony considerations. More specifically, whether spacetime is discrete, gunky or pointy, there are wildly unparsimonious rivals to standard accounts that need to b...
| Published in: | Nous (0029-4624) Vol. 57; no. 4; pp. 763 - 784 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Dec2023
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