The Nature of Contingency: Quantum Physics as Modal Realism, by Alastair Wilson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. xi + 219 [Book Review]

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_ The Nature of Contingency _: _ Quantum Physics as Modal Realism _, by AlastairWilson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. xi + 219.

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