Remote possibilities in branching time structures.
To analyse contingent propositions, this paper investigates how branching time structures can be combined with probability theory. In particular, it considers assigning infinitesimal probabilities—available in non-Archimedean probability theory—to individual histories. This allows us to introduce th...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 204; no. 2; pp. 1 - 29 |
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Aug2024
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