Funny business in branching space-times: Infinite modal correlations

Synthese

Volumn 164, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 141-159

  Müller, Thomas ^a   Belnap, Nuel ^b   Kishida, Kohei ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Correlations; Indeterminism; Modality

Indexed keywords

EID: 48349119922     PISSN: 00397857     EISSN: 15730964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-007-9220-7     Document Type: Article

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