This paper argues that all of the standard theories about the divisions of space and time can benefit from, and may need to rely on, parsimony considerations. More specifically, whether spacetime is discrete, gunky or pointy, there are wildly unparsimonious rivals to standard accounts that need to be resisted by proponents of those accounts, and only parsimony considerations offer a natural way of doing that resisting. Furthermore, quantitative parsimony considerations appear to be needed in many of these cases.

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空间、时间和简约

本文认为，所有关于空间和时间划分的标准理论都可以受益于简约性考虑，并且可能需要依赖于简约性考虑。更具体地说，无论时空是离散的、粘稠的还是尖锐的，标准账户都存在极其不吝啬的竞争对手，需要这些账户的支持者抵制，而只有简约的考虑才能提供一种自然的抵制方式。此外，在许多此类情况下似乎需要考虑定量简约性。