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Lewis, causality, and possible worlds
Dialectica 54 (2):133–137 (2000)
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We show that, given standard assumptions about classical dynamical systems, Lewis' conception of possible worlds is incompatible with classical physics in that it would imply that all dynamical systems were integrable.Author's Profile
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