Space: An Argument for Substantivalism

Have you actually read Frank’s Relativity - a Richer Truth? It has nothing to do with using the success of Einstein’s physical “relativity” to support the philosophical “relativity” of things like truth or morality. Einstein’s physical “relativity” only figures in the book as a metaphor to illustrate the point that having a richer language is useful – none of the tenets that made physical relativity “relative” featured at all. The “relativity” he is talking about in the book has nothing to do with Einstein’s physical “relativity”.

Don’t believe me? Here’s a review of the book by Mario Bunge (philosopher and physicist for the journal Science & Society):

So I don’t think you have actually gave me a physicist or philosopher who actually used the success of physical “relativity” to support the philosophical “relativity” of things like truth…

Also, it’s funny how you say that

When I state that I want the answer to this question without the “atheist” qualification:

I have no idea how you can understood that wrong… I wasn’t born yesterday; I think you are purposefully answering a different question because it is easier.

Edit: Perhaps you should read what Einstein wrote on the foreword of Frank’s book (reproduced on the book review I pasted). Einstein gave his “antipositivist” statement: “Science searches for relations which are thought to exist independently of the searching individual”, i.e., Einstein believes that scientific truth is NOT philosophically “relative”…

Edit 2: Also, once again, I am not asking for people who believes in philosophical “relativity”, but those who thought that the success of Einstein’s physical “relativity” gives support to philosophical “relativity” of things like truths. As I mention before,

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