A letter on the present state of affairs. Prior, indeterminism and relativity 40 years later

DOI10.1007/S11229-011-9939-ZMaRDI QIDQ395587zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Niko Strobach, Thomas Müller

Publication date 29 January 2014

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/s11229-011-9939-z

zbMATH Keywords

relativity theoryA-theoryArthur Priorphilosophy of time

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05) History of mathematical logic and foundations (03-03) Temporal logic (03B44) History of relativity and gravitational theory (83-03)

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