Aristotle, space and time
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Date
2013-06
Authors
Mann, Scott
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Flinders University Department of Language Studies - Modern Greek
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Flinders University Department of Language Studies - Adelaide 2013
Abstract
There are two fundamentally different conceptions of the nature of space and time.
On the one side, and particularly associated with the ideas of Newton, is what is now
called “substantivalism”, which sees space and time as existing objects, over and above
the other material objects and processes of the world. On the other, and particularly
associated with the ideas of Leibniz, is the “relationalist” approach, denying the existence
of space and time as objects in their own right; seeing them rather as relations
between material objects. This paper explores and defends Aristotle’s relationist account
of space and time, in the light of subsequent developments of physics.
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Greek research, Greece, Australia
Citation
Mann, S., 2013. Aristotle, space and time. In M. Tsianikas, N. Maadad, G. Couvalis, and M. Palaktsoglou (eds.) "Greek Research in Australia: Proceedings of the Biennial International Conference of Greek Studies, Flinders University June 2011", Flinders University Department of Language Studies - Modern Greek: Adelaide, 86-93.