Titre
Relationalism about mechanics based on a minimalist ontology of matter
Type
article
Institution
Externe
Périodique
Auteur(s)
Antonio, Vassallo
Auteure/Auteur
Dirk-André, Deckert
Auteure/Auteur
and Michael, Esfeld
Auteure/Auteur
Liens vers les personnes
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
2017
Volume
7
Première page
299
Dernière page/numéro d’article
318
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Résumé
This paper elaborates on relationalism about space and time as motivated by a minimalist ontology of the physical world: there are only matter points that are individuated by the distance relations among them, with these relations changing. We assess two strategies to combine this ontology with physics, using classical mechanics as example: the Humean strategy adopts the standard, non-relationalist physical theories as they stand and interprets their formal apparatus as the means of bookkeeping of the change of the distance relations instead of committing us to additional elements of the ontology. The alternative theory strategy seeks to combine the relationalist ontology with a relationalist physical theory that reproduces the predictions of the standard theory in the domain where these are empirically tested. We show that, as things stand, this strategy cannot be accomplished without compromising a minimalist relationalist ontology.
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Date de création
2016-09-14T18:50:13.818Z
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2025-05-20T17:08:22Z
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