Relational observables, quiddities, and structural realism.
In this article, I argue that modern spacetime physics causes problems for a number of traditional accounts of modality, but also offers important new ideas about the connection between modal and non-modal features of reality. I suggest that recent work on relational observables in general relativit...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 206; no. 2; pp. 1 - 28 |
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Aug2025
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