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    The main reason that naturalists do not already accept spatiomaterialism is that they do not choose which ontology to believe by inferring to the best ontological-cause explanation of the world. Instead, they believe in empirical science, which infers to the best efficient-cause explanations of what happens in the world, and they accept whatever ontology is required for scientific theories to be true. The Einsteinian overthrow of the Newtonian belief in absolute space and time has led naturalists to assume that space cannot be a substance enduring through time. But, as will be shown below (under Change), it is possible to explain the truth of both Einstein’s special and general theories of relativity on the assumption that space endures through time (and, thus, is absolute). That is clearly a better ontological explanation of the world than ontologies derived from realism about theories in physics, because it is simpler and less puzzling than the belief that spacetime is what contains all the matter in the world.
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