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27. Natural Reality / C. Space / 4. Substantival Space
Space has real betweenness and congruence structure (though it is not the Euclidean concepts) [Sider]
     Full Idea: In metaphysics, space is intrinsically structured; the genuine betweenness and congruence relations are privileged in a way that Euclidean-betweenness and Euclidean-congruence are not.
     From: Theodore Sider (Writing the Book of the World [2011], 03.4)
     A reaction: I note that Einstein requires space to be 'curved', which implies that it is a substance with properties.
27. Natural Reality / C. Space / 6. Space-Time
The central question in the philosophy of time is: How alike are time and space? [Sider]
     Full Idea: The central question in the philosophy of time is: How alike are time and space?
     From: Theodore Sider (Writing the Book of the World [2011], 11.1)