Time Travel, Parahistory and the Past Artefact Dilemma.
The article presents an argument that past artifacts allow parahistorical claims to face a dilemma if deployed as evidence for time travel. It examines David Lewis' definition of time travel, which requires a distinction between personal and external time. It concludes that evidential value of parah...
| Publicado en: | Philosophy Vol. 85; no. 3; pp. 369 - 374 |
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Cambridge University Press
2010
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