No Crystal Balls

A crystal ball, in Hall’s (1994) sense, need be neither round nor crystalline. The world is said to contain crystal balls whenever the present carries news of the as-yet-undetermined parts of the future. Images appearing in spheres made of magical quartz might be crystal balls, in the relevant sense...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Spencer, Jack
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley-Blackwell (Firm) 2019
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/122971