Lexicon of Arguments

 

I 13
Def substantivalism/Field: asserts that literal speech about space can be taken at face value, even without physical objects. Then it is also useful to say that the space is empty.
>Space, >Empty Space, >Relationism.
I 14
FieldVsSubstantivalism: is forced to answer a relationist in his own terms.
I 47
Substantivalism/Field: (the thesis that there are empty spacetime regions). Space time regions are known as causally active: e.g. field theories such as classical electromagnetism or the general relativity theory or quantum field theory.
Resnik: we should not ask "What properties of the spacetime points ..?" but "What is the structure of space-time?"
FieldVsResnik: that's wrong. The theory of the electromagnetic field is also that of the properties of the parts of the space time that are not occupied by objects.
I 171
Definition Substantivalism/Field: Thesis: empty space exists. - Definition Relationism: Thesis: there is no empty space.
Part-of-relation: exists in both.
>Part-of-relation.
I 181
Substantivalism/Field: favors the field theory.
>Field theory.
I 184
Substantivalism/Newton pro: E.g. bucket experiment: shows that we need the concept of absolute acceleration and the one of the equality of place over time - (space that exists through time).
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III 34f
Field pro substantivalism: there is empty space time. - Spacetimepoints are entities in their own right. - Field: that is compatible with the nominalism. - VsRelationism: this cannot accept Hilbert's axioms. VsRelationism: cannot accept physical fields. - Platonism: assumes at fields spacetime points with properties. - VsRelationism: this one cannot do it.