Stochastic Einstein Locality Revisited.

I discuss various formulations of stochastic Einstein locality (SEL), which is a version of the idea of relativistic causality, that is, the idea that influences propagate at most as fast as light. SEL is similar to Reichenbach's Principle of the Common Cause (PCC), and Bell's Local Causality. My ma...

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Publicado en:British Journal for the Philosophy of Science Vol. 58; no. 4; pp. 805 - 868
Autor principal: Butterfield, Jeremy
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: University of Chicago Press Dec2007
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