Qualitative Theories of Space-Time

• Authors: Tomasz Bigaj

Title variants

PL

Jakościowe teorie czasoprzestrzeni

EN

Qualitative Theories of Space-Time

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

This is an attempt to formulate (along the line of H. Field's nominalization program) purely qualitative versions of two theories of space time: Galilean and Minkowskian theories. The starting point is to present qualitative theory for affine geometry, which is based only on one primitive predicate: „between”. Then it is shown that with the help of this predicate whole mathematical structure of affine geometry can be reconstructed as a simple definitional extension. As a next step it is shown in details how the same procedure can be carried out for both theories mentioned above.

• Publisher: University of Warsaw, Institute of Philosophy
• Journal: Filozofia Nauki
• Year: 1995
• Volume: 3
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 33-52

Dates

published

1995-12-01

Contributors

author

Tomasz Bigaj