Abstract
Metaphysical considerations suggest that to be a serious candidate for describing actuality, a spacetime should be maximal. For example, for the Creative Force to actualize a proper subpart of a larger spacetime would seem to be a violation of Leibniz’s principles of sufficient reason and plenitude. If one adopts the image of spacetime as being generated or built up as time passes then the dynamical version of the principle of sufficient reason would ask why the Creative Force would stop building if it is possible to continue. (...) Some readers may be shocked by the introduction of metaphysical considerations in the hardest of the “hard sciences.” But in fact leading workers in relativistic gravitation, though they don’t invoke the name of Leibniz, are motivated by such principles (see, for example, Geroch 1970, p. 262; Penrose 1969, p. 253). John Earman 1
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