A Minimalist Ontology of the Natural World – eBook PDF This ebook, A Minimalist Ontology of the Natural World (PDF) seeks to work out which commitments are minimally sufficient to obtain an ontology of the natural world that matches all of today’s well-established physical theories. We propose an ontology of the natural world that is defined only by 2 axioms: The matter points are permanent, with the distances between them changing. There are distance relations that individuate simple objects, namely matter points. Everything else comes in as a means to represent the change in the distance relations in a manner...
A Minimalist Ontology of the Natural World – PDF
