spatiotemporal coherence. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Natural law assumes a spatiotemporal representation of the universe. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Another notion of non-separability is spatiotemporal non-separability. From Wordnik.com. [Action at a Distance in Quantum Mechanics] Reference
Imagine that Lumpl and Goliath coincide in their spatiotemporal extent. From Wordnik.com. [Identity] Reference
Suppose arithmetic is the study of some particular spatiotemporal entities. From Wordnik.com. [Naturalism in the Philosophy of Mathematics] Reference
Surely it is arbitrary which spatiotemporal entity is chosen as the number zero. From Wordnik.com. [Naturalism in the Philosophy of Mathematics] Reference
Consider the requirement that abstract objects be non-spatial or non-spatiotemporal. From Wordnik.com. [Abstract Objects] Reference
A second and perhaps more natural reading is that only spatiotemporal entities exist. From Wordnik.com. [Naturalism in the Philosophy of Mathematics] Reference
Plato then is first convinced that ideas cannot be spatiotemporal like material objects. From Wordnik.com. [IDEA] Reference
Some of the paradigms of abstractness are non-spatiotemporal in a straightforward sense. From Wordnik.com. [Abstract Objects] Reference
That is, are they concrete and located in spacetime, or abstract and non-spatiotemporal?. From Wordnik.com. [The Metaphysics of Causation] Reference
But how a spatiotemporal object can participate in an eternal being was left unclarified. From Wordnik.com. [IDEA] Reference
Moreover, he notes that much of the spatiotemporal region between the collision of balls 1 and. From Wordnik.com. [My Shasta Daisy] Reference
Lyre takes this to be a variant of spatiotemporal holism, and connects it to structural realism. From Wordnik.com. [Holism and Nonseparability in Physics] Reference
Abstract objects are non-spatiotemporal, necessarily existing entities which "encode" properties. From Wordnik.com. [States of Affairs] Reference
We learn as children that spatiotemporal location is an essential characteristic of material things. From Wordnik.com. [IDEA] Reference
In fact, this move would also work for visual sense-data that require some spatiotemporal framework. From Wordnik.com. [Pain] Reference
If mathematics were genuinely concerned with the spatiotemporal, surely its methodology would be more empirical. From Wordnik.com. [Naturalism in the Philosophy of Mathematics] Reference
Two non-identical objects are never completely equal; they are different at least in their spatiotemporal location. From Wordnik.com. [Equality] Reference
I had no part in policing the spatiotemporal lanes, rescuing travelers in distress, or anything glamorous like that. From Wordnik.com. [Time Patrolman]
If mathematical objects are spatiotemporal, why do mathematicians not perform experiments to discover their properties?. From Wordnik.com. [Naturalism in the Philosophy of Mathematics] Reference
Intentional objects, on the contrary, are abstract, a term which Zalta seems to regard as synonymous with ˜non-spatiotemporal™. From Wordnik.com. [Existence] Reference
But Locke applies the notion of abstraction to cases which go beyond the mere omission of particular spatiotemporal determinations. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
The spatiotemporal visualization part described what kinds of things triggered those reflexes, in this case patterns in space and time. From Wordnik.com. [In Alien Hands]
Where scientists think about viruses, electrons or stars, philosophers think about spatiotemporal continuants, universals and identity. From Wordnik.com. [Naturalism] Reference
However, there may be a posteriori objections to such non-natural spatiotemporal interventions, even if there are no a priori objections. From Wordnik.com. [Naturalism] Reference
Examples include the most general spatiotemporal properties of objects, that no two can occupy the same place at the same time, and so on. From Wordnik.com. [Logical Constructions] Reference
This is because what motivates Nominalism (in one of its senses) is basically the rejection of non-spatiotemporal and causally inert objects. From Wordnik.com. [Nominalism in Metaphysics] Reference
According to the theory of the "" Mozart effect, '' classical music fosters spatiotemporal thinking -- the kind that underlies logic and math. From Wordnik.com. [The Power Of Big Ideas] Reference
Thus one might be tempted to identify spacetime with the manifold of events plus some further structure that supplies these spatiotemporal notions. From Wordnik.com. [The Hole Argument] Reference
If nonliving things are included, there result theories of physical evolution which may embrace the earth, the solar system, and the spatiotemporal cosmos. From Wordnik.com. [EVOLUTIONISM] Reference
On a reductionist view, mathematics is taken at logico-grammatical face value but its objects (numbers, functions, sets, etc.) are taken to be spatiotemporal. From Wordnik.com. [Naturalism in the Philosophy of Mathematics] Reference
The things that information may be about may be spatiotemporal, as will be the speech or writing by which the information is conveyed from one person to another. From Wordnik.com. [Process Philosophy] Reference
Accordingly, separability without further qualification will mean spatiotemporal separability in what follows, and nonseparability will be understood as its denial. From Wordnik.com. [Holism and Nonseparability in Physics] Reference
Many of these arguments and motivations for the rejection of abstract objects are also arguments and motivations for rejecting non-spatiotemporal ante rem universals. From Wordnik.com. [Nominalism in Metaphysics] Reference
The second reading of ontological naturalism, according to which all entities are spatiotemporal, amounts to a version of anti-platonism in the philosophy of mathematics. From Wordnik.com. [Naturalism in the Philosophy of Mathematics] Reference
If these additional dimensions are appropriately considered spatial, then it is natural to extend the concepts of spatial and spatiotemporal separability to encompass them. From Wordnik.com. [Holism and Nonseparability in Physics] Reference
But there is nothing in being a time slice of such a pattern that explains why the same pattern should also characterize any other spatiotemporal region continuous with it. From Wordnik.com. [Spinoza's Physical Theory] Reference
By enabling us to take such an inventory of our knowledge, classification provides a sort of spatiotemporal cross section of the sphere of ideas and culture of a given period. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
This suggests that it may have been a mistake from the start to suppose that the distinction between concrete and abstract is at bottom a matter of spatiotemporal locatedness. From Wordnik.com. [Abstract Objects] Reference
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