Past, present and future modally introduced.
We investigate the concepts of past, present, and future that build upon a modal distinction between a settled past and an open future. The concepts are defined in terms of a pre-causal ordering that is determined by the qualitative differences between alternative possible histories. We look what an...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 198; no. 4; pp. 3603 - 3625 |
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