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Einstein's Hole Argument and Weyl's Field-body Relationalism

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Physical Theory and its Interpretation

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  1. University of Western Ontario, Ontario, Canada

    William Demopoulos

  2. University of California, Irvine, U.S.A.

    William Demopoulos

  3. Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

    Itamar Pitowsky

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Korté, H. (2006). Einstein's Hole Argument and Weyl's Field-body Relationalism. In: Demopoulos, W., Pitowsky, I. (eds) Physical Theory and its Interpretation. The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science, vol 72. Springer, Dordrecht . https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4876-9_9

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