Spatio - Temporal Analogies Paul
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An assessment of the similarities and differences between space and time has played an important part in the development of the views of a number of philosophers about time. Examples of statements about time are compared with allegedly corresponding statements about space to give us analogies and disanalogies according to whether the statements have the same or different truth values. But now what are the general principles on which such comparisons are based? In particular, according to what criteria are corresponding sentences paired off? Are there any such general criteria? And if so, do they already presuppose a substantial commitment to one or other of the points of view at issue where analogies and disanalogies are discussed? This paper is concerned with two specific proposals for criteria of correspondence, one which is rejected and the other tentatively advanced in its place. The exchange between Richard Gale (1968, 1969) and James Garson (1969) resulted in a formulation of what I call the interchange criterion, the general idea of which is that correspondence is achieved by interchanging all temporal concepts for their spatial counterparts and vice versa in the original sentence. This criterion has since received some currency (e. However, I think it is unacceptable as it stands. The point is developed in section I where it emerges, after attempting to resolve outstanding vagaries by considering how proponents of the
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