Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Stilpo, Theodore Sider and J.M.E. McTaggart
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27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / a. Explaining movement
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Maybe motion is a dynamical quantity intrinsic to a thing at a particular time [Sider]
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27. Natural Reality / C. Space / 4. Substantival Space
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Space has real betweenness and congruence structure (though it is not the Euclidean concepts) [Sider]
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27. Natural Reality / C. Space / 6. Space-Time
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Space is 3D and lacks a direction; time seems connected to causation [Sider]
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The central question in the philosophy of time is: How alike are time and space? [Sider]
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27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / b. Relative time
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For McTaggart time is seen either as fixed, or as relative to events [McTaggart, by Ayer]
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27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / f. Eternalism
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The spotlight theorists accepts eternal time, but with a spotlight of the present moving across it [Sider]
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27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / g. Growing block
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Between presentism and eternalism is the 'growing block' view - the past is real, the future is not [Sider]
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27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / h. Presentism
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For Presentists there must always be a temporal vantage point for any description [Sider]
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Presentists must deny truths about multiple times [Sider]
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27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / i. Denying time
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A-series time positions are contradictory, and yet all events occupy all of them! [McTaggart, by Le Poidevin]
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Time involves change, only the A-series explains change, but it involves contradictions, so time is unreal [McTaggart, by Lowe]
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27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / a. Experience of time
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There could be no time if nothing changed [McTaggart]
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27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / c. Tenses and time
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Talk using tenses can be eliminated, by reducing it to indexical connections for an utterance [Sider]
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27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / d. Time series
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The B-series can be inferred from the A-series, but not the other way round [McTaggart, by Le Poidevin]
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A-series uses past, present and future; B-series uses 'before' and 'after' [McTaggart, by Girle]
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A-series expressions place things in time, and their truth varies; B-series is relative, and always true [McTaggart, by Lowe]
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The B-series must depend on the A-series, because change must be explained [McTaggart, by Le Poidevin]
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27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / f. Tenseless (B) series
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The B-theory is adequate, except that it omits to say which time is present [Sider]
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The B-series involves eternalism, and the reduction of tense [Sider]
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