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substantivalisms

substantivalisms is the plural of substantivalism.

Meaning of substantivalism

Noun

substantivalism (plural substantivalisms)

  1. The doctrine that space and time have an existence independent of physical things.
    • Several philosophers of science have argued that the general theory of relativity actually supports spacetime substantivalism (if not separate spatial and temporal substantivalisms) since it allows solutions consisting of nothing but a differentiable manifold with metric tensor field […]1994, John Stachel, edited by John Earman, Allen Janis, and Gerald J. Massey, Philosophical Problems of the Internal and External Worlds, →ISBN, page 143

Questions about substantivalisms

What is substantivalisms the plural of?
Substantivalisms is the plural of substantivalism.

Words near substantivalisms in the dictionary

  1. substantifying
  2. substantious
  3. substantiously
  4. substantival
  5. substantivalism
  6. substantivalisms
  7. substantivalist
  8. substantivalists
  9. substantivally
  10. substantivate
  11. substantivated

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