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(1995) Synthese 102 (2).

Time, quantum mechanics, and decoherence

Simon Saunders

pp. 235-266

State-reduction and the notion of “actuality” are compared to “passage” through time and the notion of “the present”; already in classical relativity the latter give rise to difficulties. The solution proposed here is to treat both tense and value-definiteness as relational properties or “facts as relations”; likewise the notions of change and probability. In both cases “essential” characteristics are absent: temporal relations are tenselessly true; probabilistic relations are deterministically true.

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DOI: 10.1007/BF01089802

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Saunders, S. (1995). Time, quantum mechanics, and decoherence. Synthese 102 (2), pp. 235-266.

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