Wallace, David (2005) Language use in a branching Universe. [Preprint]
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Abstract
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.
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| Keywords: | Quantum mechanics Everett interpretation Time | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics | ||||||
| Depositing User: | Professor David Wallace | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 09 Dec 2005 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 07 Oct 2010 15:13 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 2554 | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics | ||||||
| Date: | December 2005 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/2554 |
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