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Physical Coherence and Time's Emergence
Eugene Y. S. Chua
It is often said that time vanishes in quantum gravity. One general approach to quantum gravity accepts this fundamental timelessness but seeks to derive time's emergence at a non-…
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De-Idealizing De-Idealization: Beyond Full Reversal
Yichen Luo, Eugene Y. S. Chua
There is a question of whether de-idealization is needed for justified use of -- for 'checking' -- idealizations. We argue that the standard philosophical account of de-idealizatio…