Single Idea 15067

[catalogued under 27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / c. Tenses and time]

Full Idea

Most A-theorists have been inclined to reject the tensed/tenseless distinction.

Gist of Idea

A-theorists tend to reject the tensed/tenseless distinction

Source

Kit Fine (Necessity and Non-Existence [2005], 01)

Book Reference

Fine,Kit: 'Modality and Tense' [OUP 2005], p.322


A Reaction

Presumably this is because they reject the notion of 'tenseless' truths. But sentences like 'two and two make four' seem not to be very tensy.