Who's afraid of coordinate systems? An essay on representation of spacetime structure
Coordinate-based approaches to physical theories remain standard in mainstream physics but are largely eschewed in foundational discussion in favour of coordinate-free differential-geometric approaches. I defend the conceptual and mathematical legitimacy of the coordinate-based approach for foundati...
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Elsevier Ltd
2019
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