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A partial defense of algebraic relationalism

URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2309.03622v2
Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2023 12:20:40 GMT
Title: A partial defense of algebraic relationalism
Authors: Lu Chen
Abstract summary: I defend algebraicism as a genuine relationalist view against the conventional wisdom that it is equivalent to substantivalism. I criticize the standard version of algebraicism that is considered equivalent to substantivalism.
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Abstract: I defend algebraicism, according to which physical fields can be understood in terms of their structural relations without reference to a spacetime manifold, as a genuine relationalist view against the conventional wisdom that it is equivalent to substantivalism, according to which spacetime exists fundamentally. I criticize the standard version of algebraicism that is considered equivalent to substantivalism. Furthermore, I present alternative examples of algebraicism that better implement relationalism with their conceptual advantages over substantivalism or its standard algebraic counterpart.

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