期刊名称：THEORIA. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science
印刷版ISSN：2171-679X
出版年度：2009
卷号：24
期号：2
页码：229-247
DOI：10.1387/theoria.444
语种：English
出版社：UPV/EHU - University of the Basque Country
摘要：The present article provides an analysis of the instants of a system that performs a Newtonian supertask. For each instant it studied the possibility of the system having, from the instant in question, more than one possible course of evolution. This analysis shows that some supertasks presented as deterministic by Pérez Laraudogoitia are in fact indeterministic and specifies the difficulties ahead in showing the radical indeterminism suggested by Atkinson and Johnson.
关键词：critical instant, evolution node, failure of energy conservation, indeterminism, Newtonian Mechanics, supertasks
