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1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 1. Nature of Metaphysics

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.