Restricted Diachronic Composition and Special Relativity.
When do objects at different times compose a further object? This is the question of diachronic composition. The universalist answers, 'under any conditions whatsoever'. Others argue for restrictions on diachronic composition: composition occurs only when certain conditions are met. Recently, some p...
| Publicado en: | British Journal for the Philosophy of Science Vol. 66; no. 2; pp. 235 - 256 |
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University of Chicago Press
Jun2015
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