Fifty Million Elvis Fans Can't be Wrong.

This essay revisits some classic problems in the philosophy of space and time concerning the counting of possibilities. I argue that we should think that two Newtonian worlds can differ only as to when or where things happen and that general relativistic worlds can differ in something like the same...

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Publicado en:Nous (0029-4624) Vol. 52; no. 4; pp. 946 - 982
Autor principal: Belot, Gordon
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Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Dec2018
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