We investigate the fate of determinism in general relativity (GR), comparing philosopher’s account with physicist’s well-posed initial value formulations. The is interwoven question what it for a spacetime to be ‘physically reasonable’. A central concern status global hyperbolicity, putatively necessary condition GR. While hyperbolicity may fail true all physically reasonable models, we analyze...

Proverbs as a part of colloquial literature are always nourished by religion, culture, traditions, and philosophical beliefs of a community, and thus they mirror the common beliefs of a people. The frequent repletion of a proverb pregnant with a specific thought makes that type of thought a behavioral pattern and affects the actions and behaviors of the people of a society. In the Iranian socie...