Temporal Asymmetry in Classical Mechanics

DOI10.1093/BJPS/46.2.219MaRDI QIDQ4940874zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Keith Hutchison

Publication date 13 March 2000

Published in The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1093/bjps/46.2.219

zbMATH Keywords

conservative mechanicsinstabilityparametric imprecisionradical instabilityradical irreversibilityreversibility paradoxesstabilitytemporal evolution of epistemic uncertainty

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Axiomatics, foundations (70A05)

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