Substantivalism
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 The doctrine that space and time have an existence independent of physical things.
"Several philosophers of science have argued that the general theory of relativity actually supports spacetime substantivalism (if not separate spatial and temporal substantivalisms) since it allows solutions consisting of nothing but a differentiable manifold with metric tensor field […]"
Example
More examples"Several philosophers of science have argued that the general theory of relativity actually supports spacetime substantivalism (if not separate spatial and temporal substantivalisms) since it allows solutions consisting of nothing but a differentiable manifold with metric tensor field […]"
Etymology
From substantival + -ism.
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