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work_4e7saadatnhihj36wykhscz7ce	Howard Stein	On Relativity Theory and Openness of the Future	1991	21	.pdf	application/pdf	11146	976	67	Nicholas Maxwell (1985) has contended that the special theory of relativity is incompatible with the hypothesis that the future is to some degree open (i.e., not fully determined)-a hypothesis he calls "probabilism". opinion is the real point, and since Maxwell, reviewing possible objections (in his original paper and in his response to Dieks), has failed to course, postulate a distinguished time-orientation: of the two topologicali, connected components of the set of null and time-like nonzero vectors of space-time, one must be distinguished as the set of "future-pointing", I think that a certain feature of the physical theory-in particular, of its geometric-kinematic part-tends to seduce philosophers into a misconception of its relation to experience; and 'There is one slightly delicate point to be noted: Malament's discussion, which is concerned with certain views of Grunbaum, follows the latter in treating space-time without For in this case any fundamentally probabilistic physical theory must contradict special relativity.	./cache/work_4e7saadatnhihj36wykhscz7ce.pdf	./txt/work_4e7saadatnhihj36wykhscz7ce.txt