Deep Metaphysical Indeterminacy
A recent theory of metaphysical indeterminacy says that metaphysical indeterminacy is multiple actuality: there is metaphysical indeterminacy when there are many ‘complete precisifications of reality’. But it is possible for there to be metaphysical indeterminacy even when it is impossible to precis...
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| description | A recent theory of metaphysical indeterminacy says that metaphysical indeterminacy is multiple actuality: there is metaphysical indeterminacy when there are many ‘complete precisifications of reality’. But it is possible for there to be metaphysical indeterminacy even when it is impossible to precisify reality completely. The orthodox interpretation of quantum mechanics illustrates this possibility. So this theory of metaphysical indeterminacy is not adequate. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/617282022-10-01T18:13:48Z Deep Metaphysical Indeterminacy Skow, Bradford Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy Skow, Bradford Skow, Bradford A recent theory of metaphysical indeterminacy says that metaphysical indeterminacy is multiple actuality: there is metaphysical indeterminacy when there are many ‘complete precisifications of reality’. But it is possible for there to be metaphysical indeterminacy even when it is impossible to precisify reality completely. The orthodox interpretation of quantum mechanics illustrates this possibility. So this theory of metaphysical indeterminacy is not adequate. 2011-03-18T16:24:35Z 2011-03-18T16:24:35Z 2010-06 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 0031-8094 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/61728 Skow, Bradford. “DEEP METAPHYSICAL INDETERMINACY.” The Philosophical Quarterly 60.241 (2010): 851-858. © 2010 The Author Journal compilation © 2010 The Editors of The Philosophical Quarterly https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7892-4540 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9213.2010.672.x Philosophical Quarterly Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ application/pdf Wiley MIT web domain |
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| title | Deep Metaphysical Indeterminacy |
| title_full | Deep Metaphysical Indeterminacy |
| title_fullStr | Deep Metaphysical Indeterminacy |
| title_full_unstemmed | Deep Metaphysical Indeterminacy |
| title_short | Deep Metaphysical Indeterminacy |
| title_sort | deep metaphysical indeterminacy |
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