Role of Space Time in Jainas Syadavada and Quantum Theory

Author(s): Filita Bharucha
Publisher: Shri Satguru Publications

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General Theories of Space-Time
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(5) Space-time is substance in that it forms a substratum that
underlies physical events and processes, and spatiotemporal relations among such events and processes are parasitic on the spatiotemporal relations inherent in the substratum of space-time points and regions.
Now we begin dealing with the aspect of Relationism. (1) There are two reasons why relationism is a more elusive
doctrine than absolutism. First, there is no relationist counterpart to Newton's Scholium, the locus classicus of
absolutism. (2) At the risk of some distortion it is nevertheless useful to
state three themes that form the core of classical relationism. The first theme is about both the nature of motion and the structure of space-time. All motion is the relative motion of bodies, and consequently, space-time does not have, and cannot have, structures that support
absolute quantities of motion. (3) The second theme is a denial of space-time substan
tivalism. Spatiotemporal relations among bodies and evens are direct, that is, they are not parasitic on relations among substratum of space points that underlie bodies
or space-time points that underlie events. (4) The third theme asserts that all spatial predication is
relational in nature. No irreducible, monadic spatio temporal properties, like is located at space-time point p', appear in a correct analysis of the spatiotemporal idiom.
Apart after dealing with the controversy between Absolute and Relational Groups, I cannot ignore the greats mathematician Leibniz with his idealist view attacking the absolute space. For the believed that space and time are not fully real; that they are 'IDEAL'. It is true that in the Leibnizian metaphysic what are their monerelational properties and what we call the physical world is not an appearance or phenomenon.