id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_tthopiwg4bb4xjdi7c6f6jodui James Owen Weatherall Regarding the 'Hole Argument' 2016 27 .pdf application/pdf 11093 718 63 I argue that the Hole Argument is based on a misleading use of the mathematical formalism presented by Earman and Norton (1987), the Hole Argument concerns two metaphysical of philosophy of physics where the Hole Argument is invoked, such as the literature on gauge theories and of setting aside the Earman-Norton interpretation of the Hole Argument to focus on the Mathematically, the Hole Argument trades on a construction analogous to the first two variations on Newtonian spacetime, Hole Argument, the bare manifold) to generate an isomorphism between two other objects. manifold, one is committed to taking isometric spacetimes to have the capacity to represent the same physical situations, since isometry is the standard of isomorphism given in relativity theory, on which one represents spacetime with a Lorentzian manifold, the Hole of the manifold would represent different property assignments to the same spacetime points, [The Hole Argument assumes] that a substantivalist identifies spacetime points ./cache/work_tthopiwg4bb4xjdi7c6f6jodui.pdf ./txt/work_tthopiwg4bb4xjdi7c6f6jodui.txt