Indeterminism is a modal notion: branching spacetimes and Earman's pruning.
The paper defends an Aristotelian notion of indeterminism, as rigorously formulated in the framework of branching space-times (BST) of Belnap (), against criticism by Earman's () based on a model-theoretic characterization of indeterminism. It delineates BST branching against the background provided...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 187; no. 2; pp. 441 - 470 |
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