Towards a Theory of Limited Indeterminism in Branching Space-times
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چکیده
Branching space-times (BST; Belnap, Synthese 92:385–434, 1992) is the most advanced formal framework for representing indeterminism. BST is however based on continuous partial orderings, while our natural way of describing indeterministic scenarios may be called discrete. This paper establishes a theorem providing a discrete data format for BST: it is proved that a discrete representation of indeterministic scenarios leading to BST models is possible in an important subclass of cases. This result enables the representation of limited indeterminism in BST and hopefully paves the way for the representation of substances with capacities in that framework.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- J. Philosophical Logic
دوره 39 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2010