Chapter 10 Pruning Some Branches from “Branching Spacetimes”

In Jeremy Butterfield & John Earman, [no title] (1977)
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Discussions of branching time and branching spacetime have become common in the philosophical literature. If properly understood, these conceptions can be harmless. But they are sometimes used in the service of debatable and even downright pernicious doctrines. The purpose of this chapter is to identify the pernicious branching and prune it back.

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