Why the Weyl Tile Argument Is Wrong.

Weyl famously argued that if space were discrete, then Euclidean geometry could not hold even approximately. Since then, many philosophers have responded to this argument by advancing alternative accounts of discrete geometry that recover approximately Euclidean space. However, they have missed an i...

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Published in:	British Journal for the Philosophy of Science Vol. 76; no. 4; pp. 823 - 846
Main Author:	Chen, Lu
Format:	Article
Published:	University of Chicago Press Dec2025
Subjects:	Discrete geometry Euclidean geometry Geometry Statistical physics Quantum mechanics
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost