Full Idea
Special Relativity, with its definition of simultaneity, is shot through with verificationist assumptions.
Gist of Idea
The idea of simultaneity in Special Relativity is full of verificationist assumptions
Source
Craig Bourne (A Future for Presentism [2006], 6.IIc)
Book Reference
Bourne,Craig: 'A Future for Presentism' [OUP 2006], p.171
A Reaction
[He credits Sklar with this] I love hearing such points made, because all my instincts have rebelled against Einstein's story, even after I have been repeatedly told how stupid I am, and how I should study more maths etc.
Related Ideas
Idea 13993 Special Relativity denies the absolute present which Presentism needs [Markosian]
Idea 7621 Special relativity, unlike general relativity, was operationalist in spirit [Putnam on Einstein]