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Branching time serves as a conceptual framework used to represent indeterminism by modeling multiple possible futures stemming from a single past. These structures, often visualized as trees, consist of moments acting as individual events and histories representing complete temporal paths. The text outlines how this model is applied to tense-modal logics, offering various semantic approaches like Ockhamism and supervaluationism to address the truth of future events. Furthermore, the sources explore the metaphysical implications of branching time, contrasting views such as branching realism, where all paths are equally real, with actual futurism, which privileges a single course of events. Theoretical challenges are also examined, including the integration of branching with relativistic physics and the debate over whether time can also branch toward the past.
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Branching time serves as a conceptual framework used to represent indeterminism by modeling multiple possible futures stemming from a single past. These structures, often visualized as trees, consist of moments acting as individual events and histories representing complete temporal paths. The text outlines how this model is applied to tense-modal logics, offering various semantic approaches like Ockhamism and supervaluationism to address the truth of future events. Furthermore, the sources explore the metaphysical implications of branching time, contrasting views such as branching realism, where all paths are equally real, with actual futurism, which privileges a single course of events. Theoretical challenges are also examined, including the integration of branching with relativistic physics and the debate over whether time can also branch toward the past.

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