Erick Antezana schrieb:
> Ingvar,
>
> are there any articles or books that could be pointed out regarding
> those issues (time/space is physical)?
>
> thanks,
> erick
> (01)
Tell me a little more about what you are looking for, and then I will
come back. By the way, I didn't make the point that "time/space is
physical", which I happen to believe is false, even though General
Relativity may be taken to imply such a view (i.e., space-time is a
mass-energy field, and physical things are nothing else than lumps of
mass-energy). My point is rather that if you think a little more in tune
with common sense, classical physics, and molecular biology (which I
think is much more relevant for today's information sciences than GR)
then it seems natural to regard property instances as being
spatiotemporally located without regarding them as in themselves being
physical entities. (02)
best wishes,
Ingvar
> 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
>>
>>
>>
>
> (03)
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Ingvar Johansson
IFOMIS, Saarland University
home site: http://ifomis.org/
personal home site:
http://hem.passagen.se/ijohansson/index.html (04)
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