Ingvar, (01)
are there any articles or books that could be pointed out regarding
those issues (time/space is physical)? (02)
thanks,
erick (03)
Ingvar Johansson wrote:
> Pat Hayes schrieb:
>
>> Well, I can see a lot of problems with this. If
>> you believe, for example, that all spatiotemporal
>> entities are in some sense physical, you will get
>> into trouble.
>>
>
> Let me from my philosophical corner just add one long sentence: No
> famous philosophical ontologist who posits physical (material) things in
> space and time has argued that everything that exists in space and time
> is physical (material); for instance, many claim that property instances
> *inhere in* physical things, but this does not mean that these
> spatiotemporal instances *are* physical entities.
>
> /Ingvar J
>
> (04)
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