A puzzle about rates of change.
Most of our best scientific descriptions of the world employ rates of change of some continuous quantity with respect to some other continuous quantity. For instance, in classical physics we arrive at a particle's velocity by taking the time-derivative of its position, and we arrive at a particle's...
| Publicado en: | Philosophical Studies Vol. 177; no. 10; pp. 3155 - 3170 |
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