I Tensed the Laws and the Laws Won: Non-Eternalist Humeanism
ABSTRACT In this paper, I propose a variant of a Humean account of laws called "Open Future Humeanism" (OFH), which holds that since the laws supervene partly on future events, there are at any instant infinitely many possible future courses of events. I argue that if one wants to take the...
Main Author: | Marius Backmann |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Universidade Estadual de Campinas
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Series: | Manuscrito |
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Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-60452016000400255&lng=en&tlng=en |
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