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On The Dynamics Of Alper And Bridger

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Bridger and Alper (1999) maintain that the nonphysical featuresof the supertasks described by Pérez Laraudogoitia (1996) involving a system containing an infinite number of particles may be avoided by introducing, in a specific way, Hilbert space in classical dynamics. I argue that it is possible to interpret their proposal in two ways, neither of which is acceptable for the purpose for which it was introduced.

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Pérez Laraudogoitia, J. On The Dynamics Of Alper And Bridger. Synthese 131, 157–171 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1015705510482

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