Malament, David (2009) Note on Carnap’s “On the Dependence of the Properties of Space Upon Those of Time”. [Preprint]

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Carnap’s goal in the paper is to make precise a sense in which, if relativity theory is correct, statements about the topological structure of physical space can be reduced to statements about temporal or causal order. In this note, I reconstruct Carnap’s account, indicate a number of technical problems, suggest how they might be fixed and, finally, contrast Carnap’s work here with that done earlier by the British mathematician A. A. Robb.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Malament, David
Additional Information:	To appear as an introductory note, accompanying Carnap's essay, in Collected Works of Rudolf Carnap, Volume 1: Early Writings, eds. A. W. Carus, Michael Friedman, Wolfgang Kienzler, and Sven Schlotter, Open Court Press.
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory
Depositing User:	David B. Malament
Date Deposited:	23 Sep 2009
Last Modified:	07 Oct 2010 15:18
Item ID:	4909
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory
Date:	September 2009
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/4909

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