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How to Defeat Wüthrich's Abysmal Embarrassment Argument against Space-Time Structuralism.

In his award-winning contribution to the biannual PSA conference at Pittsburgh in 2008, Christian Wüthrich mounted an argument against structuralism about spacetime in the context of the general theory of relativity (GTR), to the effect that structuralists cannot discern space-time points: an "abysm...

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Published in:Philosophy of Science Vol. 78; no. 5; pp. 1046 - 1058
Main Author: Muller, F. A.
Format: Article
Published: Cambridge University Press Dec2011
Subjects:
Wüthrich, Christian
Structuralism
Spacetime
Philosophy of science
General relativity (Physics)
Realism
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