Topic: Interconnections
Language use in a branching Universe
By David Wallace
I investigate the consequences for semantics, and in particular for the semantics of tense, if time is assumed to have a branching structure not out of metaphysical necessity (to solve some philosophical problem) but just as a contingent physical fact, as is suggested by a currently-popular approach to the interpretation of quantum mechanics.
Source: Online Papers in Philosophy
Posted by Tony Marmo
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Updated: Friday, 30 December 2005 16:31 GMT
