The Paradoxes of Time Travel¶
Lewis, D. (1976). The Paradoxes of Time Travel.
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- Ontological Paradox
- Metaphysics of time and causation — the central toy case (Mellor, Lewis, Sider) for adjudicating whether causal loops are coherent and whether causal order is a necessary or merely contingent feature of reality.
This sourceLewis's defence of the consistency of time travel, including a closed causal chain whose parts are explicable but whose information has no origin.
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“there may also be causal loops: closed causal chains”
- Metaphysics of time and causation — the central toy case (Mellor, Lewis, Sider) for adjudicating whether causal loops are coherent and whether causal order is a necessary or merely contingent feature of reality.
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