Mirror Symmetry: What is it for Relational Space to be Orientable?
Huggett, Nick (2002) Mirror Symmetry: What is it for Relational Space to be Orientable?.
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Abstract
As Pooley (2001) explains, the challenge of giving a relational account of orientability (and topology more generally) is not an easy one. This paper criticizes Pooley's and other proposals, raises a range of problems for the project, and then proposes a novel way for the relationist to understand not only topology, but also the geometry of space. This proposal is the `regularity account' since it claims that geometry and topology supervene on the regular ways in which relations evolve.
| Commentary on: | Pooley, Oliver (2001) Handedness, parity violation, and the reality of space. |
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| EPrint Type: | Preprint |
| Keywords: | space, spacetime, geometry, symmetry, mirror symmetry, chirality, orientability, topology, relationism, laws of nature |
| Subjects: | General Issues: Laws of Nature Specific Sciences: Physics |
| Conferences and Volumes: | [2001] Symmetries in Physics, New Reflections: Oxford Workshop (Oxford, January 2001) |
| ID Code: | 767 |
| Deposited By: | Huggett, Nick |
| Deposited On: | 21 August 2002 |
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