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The Regularity Account of Relational Spacetime.

A version of relationism that takes spatiotemporal structures-spatial geometry and a standard of inertia-to supervene on the history of relations between bodies is described and defended. The account is used to explain how the relationist should con- strue models of Newtonian mechanics in which abso...

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Published in:Mind (0026-4423) Vol. 115; no. 457; pp. 41 - 74
Main Author: Huggett, Nick
Format: Article
Published: Oxford University Press / USA Jan2006
Subjects:
Relation (Philosophy)
Geometry
Spatio-temporal variation
Inertia (Mechanics)
Acceleration (Mechanics)
Free will & determinism
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