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...

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Published in:	Synthese Vol. 188; no. 1; pp. 5 - 22
Main Author:	Belnap, Nuel
Format:	Article
Published:	Springer Nature Sep2012
Subjects:	Spacetime Indeterminism (Philosophy) Relativity Objectivity Free will & determinism Omnipotence of God Omniscience (Theory of knowledge)
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