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What does it mean for space and time to be the same thing? Not related to each other, but literally two descriptions of precisely the same entity called ‘spacetime’? One cannot understand existence without understanding spacetime.

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Bas C. van Fraassen is a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at San Francisco State University and the McCosh Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Princeton University. He teaches courses in the philosophy of science, philosophical logic and the role of models in scientific practice.

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