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Mind 2002 111(442):281-288; doi:10.1093/mind/111.442.281
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Just as Beautiful but not (Necessarily) a Supertask

Jon Pérez Laraudogoitia1

1 Departamento de Lógica y Filosofía, de la Ciencia, Facultad de Filología (Universidad del País Vasco), Paseo de la Universidad 5, Apartado 2111, 01006 Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain E-mail: ylppelaj{at}vc.ehu.es

In this paper I will put forward a simple case of a dynamical system which can exhibit both the indeterminism linked to escape to infinity and that linked to self-excitation. The case depends neither on the gravitational interaction between particles nor on their mutual collisions, and thus reveals the existence of a new kind of constraint that Newton's laws lay on the predictive power of classical dynamics.


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