Placek, Tomasz (2019) Past, present and future modally introduced. [Preprint]
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Abstract
We investigate the concepts of past, present, and future that build upon a modal distinction between a settled past and an open future. The concepts are defined in terms of a pre-causal ordering that is determined by the qualitative differences between alternative possible histories. We look what an event's past, present, and future look like in the so-called Minkowskian Branching Structures, one in which histories are isomorphic to Minkowski space-time.
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| Additional Information: | To appear in Synthese | ||||||
| Keywords: | tenses, modality, theory of relativity, branching space-times | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory | ||||||
| Depositing User: | Tomasz Placek | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 01 Jul 2019 18:30 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 01 Jul 2019 18:30 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 16165 | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory | ||||||
| Date: | 29 June 2019 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/16165 |
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