What Is a Physically Reasonable Space-Time?
Cosmologists often use certain global properties to exclude "physically unreasonable" cosmological models from serious consideration. But, on what grounds should these properties be regarded as physically unreasonable if we cannot rule out, even with a robust type of inductive reasoning, the possibi...
| Publicado en: | Philosophy of Science Vol. 78; no. 3; pp. 410 - 421 |
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Cambridge University Press
Jul2011
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| Sumario: | Cosmologists often use certain global properties to exclude "physically unreasonable" cosmological models from serious consideration. But, on what grounds should these properties be regarded as physically unreasonable if we cannot rule out, even with a robust type of inductive reasoning, the possibility of the properties obtaining in our own universe? |
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