Burbury's Last Case: The Mystery of the Entropic Arrow

Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 50:19-56 (2002)
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Does not the theory of a general tendency of entropy to diminish [sic] take too much for granted? To a certain extent it is supported by experimental evidence. We must accept such evidence as far as it goes and no further. We have no right to supplement it by a large draft of the scientific imagination.

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