Single Idea 14411

[catalogued under 27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / h. Presentism]

Full Idea

Maybe presentism alone allows for genuine change, by permitting the direct having of a property by something and then, later, the absolute lacking of that property by that same thing.

Gist of Idea

Maybe only presentism allows change, by now having a property, and then lacking it

Source

Trenton Merricks (Truth and Ontology [2007], 6.IV n23)

Book Reference

Merricks,Trenton: 'Truth and Ontology' [OUP 2007], p.142


A Reaction

Four-dimensionalism (perdurantism) is the view which is most often charged with not explaining change, and that tends to be associated with eternalism. Are there just two coherent packages of views here?