论文标题
时空物理学中的建设性公理学部分：上下文中的建设性公理学
Constructive Axiomatics in Spacetime Physics Part II: Constructive Axiomatics in Context
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论文摘要
Ehlers-Pirani-Schild（EPS）于1972年发表的一般相对论的建设性公理化，声称仅从仅具有不可用的经验含量的公理来构建该理论的运动结构。因此，这对认识论和时空理论的形而上学都具有深远的意义。在本文中，我们通过（a）讨论EPS领导中的时空理论的建设性方法的历史来设置EPS方法； （b）解决针对每股收益的一些主要问题； （c）考虑EPS与“计时”方法的比较，以使其具有总体相对论的度量领域的运行意义； （d）通常将不同种类的建设性方法与将EP拟合到此分类中； （e）讨论建构主义在物理基础中的许多其他问题上如何承担； （f）评估建构主义地方基础主义项目的优点。有两篇伴侣论文，其中我们为EPS公理化（第I部分）提供教学演练，并讨论/开发具有量子机械输入的EPS的版本（第三部分）。
The Ehlers-Pirani-Schild (EPS) constructive axiomatisation of general relativity, published in 1972, purports to build up the kinematical structure of that theory from only axioms which have indubitable empirical content. It is, therefore, of profound significance both to the epistemology and to the metaphysics of spacetime theories. In this article, we set the EPS approach in its proper context, by (a) discussing the history of constructive approaches to spacetime theories in the lead-up to EPS; (b) addressing some of the major concerns raised against EPS; (c) considering how EPS compares with 'chronometric' approaches to affording the metric field of general relativity its operational significance; (d) distinguishing quite generally between different kinds of constructive approach, and fitting EPS into this classification; (e) discussing how constructivism bears on a number of other issues in the foundations of physics; and (f) assessing the merits of constructivism qua local foundationalist project. There are two companion papers, in which we provide a pedagogical walkthrough to the EPS axiomatisation (Part I), and discuss/develop versions of EPS with quantum mechanical inputs (Part III).
