Newtonian determinism to branching space-times indeterminism in two moves.
'Branching space-times' (BST) is intended as a representation of objective, event-based indeterminism. As such, BST exhibits both a spatio-temporal aspect and an indeterministic 'modal' aspect of alternative possible historical courses of events. An essential feature of BST is that it can also repre...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 188; no. 1; pp. 5 - 22 |
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