  The purpose of this paper is to present a generalized hole argument for gauge
field theories and their geometrical setting in terms of fiber bundles. The
generalized hole argument is motivated and extended from the spacetime hole
arguments which appear in spacetime theories based on differentiable manifolds
such as general relativity. Analogously, the generalized hole argument rules
out fiber bundle substantivalism and, thus, a relationalistic interpretation of
the geometry of fiber bundle spaces is favoured. Along the way, the concept of
gauge field theories will be analyzed via considering the gauge principle and
thereby hopefully clarifying certain terminological ambiguities.
