In a recent article, Ned Markosian gives an argument against four-dimensionalism understood as the view that time is one of four identical dimensions that constitute a single four-dimensional manifold. In this paper, I show that Markosian attacks a straw man as his argument targets a theory known to be false on empirical grounds. Four-dimensionalism rightly conceived in no way entails that time is identical to space. I then address two objections raised by Markosian against four-dimensionalism rightly conceived.

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从时空到时空：对马尔科斯的回复

在最近的一篇文章中，内德·马尔科斯 (Ned Markosian) 提出了反对四维主义的论点，四维主义认为时间是构成单个四维流形的四个相同维度之一。在本文中，我展示了 Markosian 攻击一个稻草人，因为他的论点针对的是一个在经验基础上已知为错误的理论。正确构想的四维主义绝不意味着时间与空间相同。然后，我解决了 Markosian 对正确构想的四维主义提出的两个反对意见。