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Propensities and Possibilities
Metaphysica 20 (1):1-3 (2019)
Abstract
This paper is a reply to a recent Metaphysica paper advocating an ‘unrestricted actualism’ which lets the actual world include unrealised possible outcomes of propensities. I argue that the actual world can accommodate propensity theories of chance without including unrealised possibilities.Author's Profile
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A Reply to Mellor’s “Propensities and Possibilities”.Robin Stenwall, Johannes Persson & Nils-Eric Sahlin - 2019 - Metaphysica 20 (2):149-150.
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A New Challenge for Objective Uncertainties and The Propensity Theorist.Robin Stenwall, Johannes Persson & Nils-Eric Sahlin - 2018 - Metaphysica 19 (2):219-224.
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