Time traveler confirms five minute hypothesis!
Conclusion: What matters for any norm is personal time rather than time. Personal time is a time-like relation (roughly, the time measured by your wristwatch) that knits together scattered temporal parts so that they conform to familiar patterns. David Lewis introduced personal time as an interpreti...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 204; no. 2; pp. 1 - 15 |
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