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Physical science in the Twentieth Century has raised two questions of the most profound importance regarding the scientific role of the concepts of space and time. First: Do we, in a physical theory, have to deal with space and time in the terms in which they have almost universally been dealt with or at least implicitly thought of? and second: Is it necessary, in a physical theory, to employ the concepts of space and time at all?
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Shapere, D. (1984). Space, Time, and Language. In: Reason and the Search for Knowledge. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 78. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-9731-4_7
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