MACROSCOPIC ONTOLOGY IN EVERETTIAN QUANTUM MECHANICS.
Simon Saunders and David Wallace have proposed an attractive semantics for interpreting linguistic communities embedded in an Everettian multiverse. It provides a charitable interpretation of our ordinary talk about the future, and allows us to retain a principle of bivalence for propositions and to...
| Publicado en: | Philosophical Quarterly Vol. 61; no. 243; pp. 363 - 383 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Apr2011
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