Spacetime structure is empirically accessible only through measurement outcomes; whether those outcomes derive from fundamental or emergent processes is epistemically secondary to their consistency.
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(as one criterion for whether something is physically real)
A physics concept combining space (location) and time into one continuous system—basically, every physical object exists somewhere at some moment in time.
consistency(Syntactic concept in many-sorted logic)
The syntactic counterpart of satisfiability; corresponds to satisfiability in the same sense as ⊢ corresponds to ⊨
epistemology(Contrasted with purely descriptive scientific inquiry)
A normative enterprise that tells us how we ought to reason from evidence and how we ought to justify our beliefs, as distinct from merely describing how we do reason or justify beliefs
fundamental(as used in metaphysics)
Basic, primary, or most essential—the deepest level of something, not derived from anything else.