A new challenge for objective uncertainties and the propensity theorist
Stenwall, Robin LU ; Persson, Johannes LU
and Sahlin, Nils-Eric
LU
(2018)
In Metaphysica
19(2).
p.219-224
- Abstract
- The paper is concerned with the existence of objective uncertainties. What would it take for objective uncertainties to exist, and what would be the consequences for our understanding of the world we live in? We approach these questions by considering two common theories on how we are to understand the being of propensities and how it pertains to possible outcomes that remain unmanifested. It is argued that both or these theories should be rejected, and be replaced with a theory we call unrestricted actualism according to which the possible outcomes of propensities (whether realized or unrealized) are denizens of the actual world.
- Abstract (Swedish)
- The paper is concerned with the existence of objective uncertainties. What would it take for objective uncertainties to exist, and what would be the consequences for our understanding of the world we live in? We approach these questions by considering two common theories on how we are to understand the being of propensities and how it pertains to possible outcomes that remain unmanifested. It is argued that both or these theories should be rejected, and be replaced with a theory we call unrestricted actualism according to which the possible outcomes of propensities (whether realized or unrealized) are denizens of the actual world.
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- author
- Stenwall, Robin
LU
; Persson, Johannes
LU
and Sahlin, Nils-Eric
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2018-08-28
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- propensity theory, philosophy of probability, dispositions, actualism, possibilism
- in
- Metaphysica
- volume
- 19
- issue
- 2
- pages
- 219 - 224
- publisher
- Springer
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85041170889
- ISSN
- 1874-6373
- DOI
- 10.1515/mp-2018-0012
- project
- Science and Proven Experience
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 86d815ec-dfdf-411c-bd45-340ac1f95b13
- date added to LUP
- 2018-01-18 19:38:16
- date last changed
- 2022-11-22 01:23:31
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