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Indiscernibles, General Covariance, and Other Symmetries

Saunders, Simon (2001) Indiscernibles, General Covariance, and Other Symmetries. UNSPECIFIED. (In Press)

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Leibniz's principle of identity of indiscernibles, formulated in modern logical terms, can be applied in a uniform way to all the exact physical symmetries, including the diffeomorphism group of general relativity. The framework that results is a form of relationalism, although it is not wedded to any reductionist program. Objections to near neighbours of these claims, by Stachel and Earman respectively, are considered and rejected.


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Saunders, Simon
Keywords: Leibniz, identity of indiscernibles, general covariance, relationalism, relationism, Earman, Stachel, hole argument.
Subjects: Specific Sciences > Physics > Classical Physics
Specific Sciences > Physics > Cosmology
Specific Sciences > Physics > Fields and Particles
Specific Sciences > Physics
Depositing User: Simon W. Saunders
Date Deposited: 29 Oct 2001
Last Modified: 07 Oct 2010 15:10
Item ID: 459
Public Domain: No
Subjects: Specific Sciences > Physics > Classical Physics
Specific Sciences > Physics > Cosmology
Specific Sciences > Physics > Fields and Particles
Specific Sciences > Physics
Date: August 2001
URI: https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/459

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