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On the Inextendibility of Space-Time

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

John Byron Manchak
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Abstract

It has been argued that space-time must be inextendible—that it must be “as large as it can be” in some sense. Here, we register some skepticism with respect to this position.

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Philosophy of Science , Volume 84 , Issue 5 , December 2017 , pp. 1215 - 1225
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Copyright © The Philosophy of Science Association

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Footnotes

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Thanks to Thomas Barrett, Ben Feintzeig, David Malament, Jim Weatherall, and Chris Wüthrich for help with earlier versions of this document. Special thanks go to David Malament for providing a sketch of the lemma 2 proof.

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