Regarding 'Leibniz Equivalence'

Roberts, Bryan W.ORCID logo (2020) Regarding 'Leibniz Equivalence' Foundations of Physics, 50 (4). 250 - 269. ISSN 0015-9018
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Leibniz Equivalence is a principle of applied mathematics that is widely assumed in both general relativity textbooks and in the philosophical literature on Einstein's hole argument. In this article, I clarify an ambiguity in the statement of this Leibniz Equivalence, and argue that the relevant expression of it for the hole argument is strictly false. I then show that the hole argument still succeeds as a refutation of manifold substantivalism; however, recent proposals that the hole argument is undermined by principles of representational equivalence do not fare so well.

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