Action at a distance.
The article focuses on the concept of "action at a distance," and the controversial idea of "unmediated action at a distance." According to the article, the former is defined as an event that occurs whenever there is a spatial or temporal gap, or both, between a cause and its effect. Supporting inst...
| Publicado en: | Philosophy pp. 21 - 37 |
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Cambridge University Press
2007
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