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The Best Humean System for Statistical Mechanics.

Classical statistical mechanics posits probabilities for various events to occur, and these probabilities seem to be objective chances. This does not seem to sit well with the fact that the theory's time evolution is deterministic. We argue that the tension between the two is only apparent. We prese...

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Published in:Erkenntnis Vol. 80; pp. 551 - 575
Main Authors: Frigg, Roman, Hoefer, Carl
Format: Article
Published: Springer Nature Dec2015 Supplement
Subjects:
Statistical mechanics
Probability theory
Thermodynamics
Boltzmann's constant
Analytical mechanics
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