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Strategic Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The relationship between entrepreneurship and uncertainty is ambivalent: while uncertainty creates entrepreneurial opportunities, it simultaneously poses a fundamental challenge. Despite extensive theorizing, conceptual ambiguity persists regarding the locus, origin, and behavioral implications of uncertainty in entrepreneurship.
Clemens Soehngen +2 more
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The problem of future contingents: scoping out a solution [PDF]
, 2020 Various philosophers have long since been attracted to the doctrine that future contingent propositions systematically fail to be true—what is sometimes called the doctrine of the open future.
Todd, Patrick
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Navigating uncertainty in life cycle assessment‐based approaches to biodiversity footprinting
Methods in Ecology and Evolution, EarlyView.Abstract The use of life cycle assessment (LCA) methods is rapidly expanding as a means of estimating the biodiversity impacts of organisations across complex value chains. However, these methods have limitations and substantial uncertainties, which are rarely communicated in the results of LCAs.
Talitha Bromwich +15 more
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Session 4: Evolutionary Indeterminism [PDF]
, 2002 Proceedings of the Pittsburgh Workshop in History and Philosophy of Biology, Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, March 23-24 2001 Session 4: Evolutionary ...
Bouchard, Frederic +3 more
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, 2016 An account of determinism and indeterminism in physics, addressed to non-physicist readers, leading up to proposals for how to understand statements about the future and single-event probability, motivated by quantum ...
Sudbery, Anthony
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Observationally Indistinguishable Spacetimes: A Challenge for Any Inductivist [PDF]
, 2011 Results on the observational indistinguishability of spacetimes demonstrate the impossibility of determining by deductive inference which is our spacetime, no matter how extensive a portion of the spacetime is observed. These results do not illustrate an
Norton, JD
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The problem of free will is child's play
Philosophical Investigations, EarlyView.Abstract I argue that the essence of ‘free will’ is control, the ability to do otherwise and that this ability is an acquired skill: We can and do see people acquire it, as for example small children learn to play and to do all the other things that human agents characteristically do.
Sophie‐Grace Chappell
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Linearism, Universalism and Scope Ambiguities
Analytic Philosophy, Volume 67, Issue 1, Page 59-71, March 2026.ABSTRACT In this paper, I distinguish two possible families of semantics of the open future: Linearism, according to which future tense sentences are evaluated with respect to a unique possible future history, and Universalism, according to which future tense sentences are evaluated universally quantifying on the histories passing through the moment of
Aldo Frigerio
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Relativity of a Free Will Concept Depending on Both Conscious Indeterminism and Unconscious Determinism [PDF]
, 2011 Free will is difficult to classify with respect to determinism or indeterminism, and its phenomenology in consciousness often shows both aspects. Initially, it is felt as unlimited and indeterminate will power, with the potentiality of multiple choices ...
Jansen, Franz Klaus
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Fatalism as a Metaphysical Thesis [PDF]
, 2016 Even though fatalism has been an intermittent topic of philosophy since Greek antiquity, this paper argues that fate ought to be of little concern to metaphysicians.
Ulrich, Meyer
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