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(philosophy) The doctrine that space and time have an existence independent of physical things.

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substantivalism

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substantivalism

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(philosophy) The doctrine that space and time have an existence independent of physical things.

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空間と時間が物理的な事物と独立して存在するという立場、すなわち時空が物質から自立して存在するという哲学的主義

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In his paper, he argued that substantivalism offers a clearer account of gravitational effects than relational theories.

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彼は論文で、空間と時間が物理的な物体とは独立して存在するとする立場が、関係論より重力の影響をより明確に説明すると主張した。

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(philosophy) The doctrine that space and time have an existence independent of physical things.

Several philosophers of science have argued that the general theory of relativity actually supports spacetime substantivalism (if not separate spatial and temporal substantivalisms) since it allows solutions consisting of nothing but a differentiable manifold with metric tensor field […]

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