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work_34hzxwieujeeji5rmyzxlibsv4	Ryan Samaroo	On Identifying Background-Structure in Classical Field Theories	2011	19	.pdf	application/pdf	7276	466	53	I examine a property of theories called 'background-independence' that Einsteinian gravitation is One of the great empirical claims of Einsteinian gravitation is that space-time structure is space-time structures of Newtonian theory and special relativity. space-time structures of Newtonian theory and special relativity. distinguishes Einsteinian gravitation, which Anderson claimed lacks an absolute object, from general covariance but because Anderson took the presence of absolute objects in a theory's A theory is background-independent just in case it has no absolute objects. the absolute-dynamical distinction: No object that is varied in a theory's action principle should be considered concerned with the essentially physical distinction between space-time structure in Newtonian theory and special theory and special relativity are characterised by absolute objects; the space-time of Einsteinian Minkowski space-time and paradigmatically background-independent theories such as spatially Provided that a theory has no absolute objects, does background-independence require Einsteinian gravitation is not the only theory that satisfies this equivalence principle: Newtonian 	./cache/work_34hzxwieujeeji5rmyzxlibsv4.pdf	./txt/work_34hzxwieujeeji5rmyzxlibsv4.txt