Single Idea 14991

[catalogued under 27. Natural Reality / C. Space / 4. Substantival Space]

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.

Gist of Idea

Space has real betweenness and congruence structure (though it is not the Euclidean concepts)

Source

Theodore Sider (Writing the Book of the World [2011], 03.4)

Book Reference

Sider,Theodore: 'Writing the Book of the World' [OUP 2011], p.42


A Reaction

I note that Einstein requires space to be 'curved', which implies that it is a substance with properties.