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One reason for reconsidering the traditional debate about the nature of space and time at a Meeting on “probability in the sciences” is simply that present scientific knowledge in microphysics clearly suggests that probability is fundamentally related to the very concepts of space and time.
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Pauri, M. (1988). Probabilistic Ontology and Space-Time: Updating an Historical Debate. In: Agazzi, E. (eds) Probability in the Sciences. Synthese Library, vol 201. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3061-2_15
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