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| Space-time, philosophy: space time is a three-dimensional space with time as a fourth dimension. The fact that time is interpreted as a dimension distinguishes the space-time from multi-dimensional mathematical spaces, in which time plays no role and which are therefore structured differently. In particular, the space-time has no measure which can equally be used for spatial distances as well as for time measurements. See also relativity theory, four-dimensionalism, world lines._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Jaakko Hintikka on Space Time - Dictionary of Arguments
II 81 Space Time/identification/KripkeVsHintikka/QuineVsHintikka/Hintikka: Kripke and Quine argue (for different reasons) that space time continuity does not always have a precise meaning. >Possible worlds, >Cross world identity, >Centered worlds, >Identification, >World lines. SaarinenVsHintikka: the identity of individuals, which occur in several worlds, is not always well-defined for all these possible worlds. Hintikka: ditto: it may be in belief contexts that an individual is identified under a description, but not under another description. This must also be the case, otherwise we would be omniscient again. Possible Worlds: we must also be careful to adopt a "common reason" from all possible worlds. We certainly do not share a part of the space time, but part of the facts. World/Tractatus/Wittgenstein/substance/Hintikka: in Wittgenstein, the world is the sum of the facts, not of the objects: for a shared space time this would only be by additional assumptions. Cross-world identification/Hintikka: the cross-world identification seems lost when we are dealing only with a lot of facts ((s) epistemically) and a common space time is missing. II 82 Re-identification: re-identification of physical objects is necessary first to get to the cross-world identification later. II 90 Possible worlds/Hintikka: the expression possible world presupposes that a space time is shared._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Hintikka I Jaakko Hintikka Merrill B. Hintikka Investigating Wittgenstein German Edition: Untersuchungen zu Wittgenstein Frankfurt 1996 Hintikka II Jaakko Hintikka Merrill B. Hintikka The Logic of Epistemology and the Epistemology of Logic Dordrecht 1989 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-28