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Times and the Topology of Time

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IN Chapter 2 we considered the question whether it made sense to suppose that there was more than one space, and we concluded that it did. In this chapter we must ask the corresponding question about time.

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© 1968 Richard Swinburne

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Swinburne, R. (1968). Times and the Topology of Time. In: Space and Time. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-00581-9_11

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