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The Hole Argument

History and Philosophy of Physics 2020-09-22 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

This paper reviews the hole argument as an argument against spacetime substantivalism. After a careful presentation of the argument itself I review possible responses.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2009.09982,
  title  = {The Hole Argument},
  author = {Oliver Pooley},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.09982},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

23 pages, 0 figures. To be published in E. Knox and A. Wilson (eds), The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Physics

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