标题： 反对激进关系论：保卫时间的序数结构 显示英文标题

标题： Against Radical Relationalism: in Defense of the Ordinal Structure of Time

摘要： 一些量子引力领域的作者明确或隐含地支持一种激进的关系主义时间观，这种观点认为即使在我们的经典理论中，尤其是在广义相对论中，时间的序数结构也不是必需的。 在本文中，我分析了这一立场及其支持论据，并论证了激进的关系主义者的一些论点存在一些严重问题，使得这一立场缺乏吸引力。 因此，我得出结论，我们理论中的时序结构在理论上和解释上都扮演着重要的角色，并且可以被视为我们理论的经验内容的一部分。 显示英文摘要

摘要： Some authors in the quantum gravity community endorse, explicitly or implicitly, a radical relationalist view of time which states that the ordinal structure of time is not needed even in our classical theories, especially in general relativity. In this article I analyze this position and the arguments supporting it, and I argue that there are some serious concerns with some of the radical relationalists' arguments which make it an unattractive position. In this sense, I conclude that the chrono-ordinal structures of our theories play important theoretical and explanatory roles and that they can be taken to be part of the empirical content of our theories.