Measures over initial conditions

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This paper concerns the meaning of the idea of typicality in classical statistical mechanics and how typicality is related to the notion of probability.

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Orly Shenker
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Meir Hemmo
University of Haifa

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Laws and symmetry.Bas C. Van Fraassen - 1989 - New York: Oxford University Press.
Nature's capacities and their measurement.Nancy Cartwright - 1989 - New York: Oxford University Press.

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