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Time Travel: Probability and Impossibility

Posted by lou
Tags: philosophy, books, reviews, oxford university press, nikk effingham, time travel, metaphysics, paradoxes, university of notre dame, probability, decision theory, grandfather paradox, author.kristie miller, source.nd, long read
https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/time-travel-probability-and-impossibility/

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    Oof, that reviewer needs an editor. Or I am far away from intended audience.

    Oof, that reviewer needs an editor. Or I am far away from intended audience.

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    1. lou
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      They do, unfortunately. But I'm not sure if I'd understand much of the book either. These subjects are heavy in math and specialized logic, and I'm the one person on Tildes that's not in STEM. I...

      They do, unfortunately. But I'm not sure if I'd understand much of the book either. These subjects are heavy in math and specialized logic, and I'm the one person on Tildes that's not in STEM.

      I did feel that I got something from it, but I wouldn't know how to say precisely what.

      The distinction between actual possibility vs metaphysic possibility was pretty cool though.

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