Towards a Theory of Limited Indeterminism in Branching Space-times.
Branching space-times (BST; Belnap, Synthese 92:385–434, ) is the most advanced formal framework for representing indeterminism. BST is however based on continuous partial orderings, while our natural way of describing indeterministic scenarios may be called discrete. This paper establishes a theore...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Philosophical Logic Vol. 39; no. 4; pp. 395 - 424 |
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