Powers: The No-Successor Problem.
This essay considers the implications for the powers metaphysic of the no-successor problem: As there are no successors in the set of real numbers, one state cannot occur just after another in continuous time without there being a gap between the two. I show how the no-successor problem sets challen...
| Publicado en: | Journal of the American Philosophical Association Vol. 7; no. 2; pp. 213 - 231 |
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