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14611 | Metaphysics should avoid talk of past, present or future [Smart] |
Full Idea: Metaphysics should not be cosmically parochial. It should eschew tensed languages. | |
From: J.J.C. Smart (The Tenseless Theory of Time [2008], 1) | |
A reaction: This is quite an engaging reason to be an eternalist (or B-theorist) about time. Presumably we can still believe in tensed time, as long as we recognise that metaphysics itself is a timeless subject. |