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This volume explores the inadequacies of the two standard conceptions of space and time, and in the process, proposes a new historical interpretation of these physical theories. This book also examines and develops alternative ontological conceptions of space, and explores additional historical elements of seventeenth century theories and other metaphysical themes.

The authors first discuss the two main opposing theories of space and time. One, known as substantivalism, proposes space to be an entity that can exist independently. The other, relationism, contends that space is a...