Indeterminism is a modal notion: branching spacetimes and Earman's pruning

DOI10.1007/S11229-010-9846-8MaRDI QIDQ383033zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Tomasz Placek, Nuel D. jun. Belnap

Publication date 25 November 2013

Published in Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-010-9846-8

zbMATH Keywords

spacetimesbranching space-timesindeterminism/determinismtenses

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05) Special relativity (83A05) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Logic in the philosophy of science (03A10)

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