Dated Truths Without Dated Powers.
Dispositionalism is the theory of modality according to which all (metaphysical and natural) modal truths are made true by some actual irreducibly dispositional property. The relationship between Dispositionalism and time is yet to be satisfactorily explored. In this paper we contribute to this task...
| Publicado en: | Erkenntnis Vol. 90; no. 4; pp. 1605 - 1626 |
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