Branching in the landscape of possibilities.

The metaphor of a branching tree of future possibilities has a number of important philosophical and logical uses. In this paper we trace this metaphor through some of its uses and argue that the metaphor works the same way in physics as in philosophy. We then give an overview of formal systems for...

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Publicado en:Synthese Vol. 188; no. 1; pp. 41 - 66
Autor principal: Müller, Thomas
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Springer Nature Sep2012
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