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In his recent article ‘It Ain’t Necessarily So’, Hilary Putnam (1962, p. 668) remarks that “in the last few years I have been amused and irritated by the spate of articles proving that time travel is a ‘conceptual impossibility’.”
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Weingard, R. (1973). On Travelling Backward in Time. In: Suppes, P. (eds) Space, Time and Geometry. Synthese Library, vol 56. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2650-5_6
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