Far Away Now: Time and Distance Revisited.
Einstein claimed that we do not know what it means to say that events distant from one another are simultaneous, because there is no way to determine this operationally. Reichenbach and Grunbaum claimed that determinate time relations just do not exist among events not connectible by a causal signal...
| Publicado en: | Metaphilosophy Vol. 29; no. 4; pp. 306 - 313 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Oct98
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