Building the world from its fundamental constituents.

The article discusses the spatiotemporalist approach which aims at changing the fundamental constituents, structure and composition of the world. It states that these approaches starts with a point that whether and how spatiotemporal parts and spatiotemporal composition interact and how they try to...

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Published in:Philosophical Studies Vol. 158; no. 2; pp. 221 - 257
Main Author: Paul, L.
Format: Article
Published: Springer Nature Mar2012
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Summary:The article discusses the spatiotemporalist approach which aims at changing the fundamental constituents, structure and composition of the world. It states that these approaches starts with a point that whether and how spatiotemporal parts and spatiotemporal composition interact and how they try to build the entire physical world using spatiotemporal mereology. It further discusses on fundamental world space category which can be described as a category of an existence space.