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Single Idea 14017
[filed under theme 27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / h. Presentism
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Full Idea
Since for presentism there is an ontologically significant and basic sense in which events are present, we should expect a definition of simultaneity in terms of presentness, rather than the other way round.
Gist of Idea
Since presentists treat the presentness of events as basic, simultaneity should be define by that means
Source
Craig Bourne (A Future for Presentism [2006], 6.IV)
Book Ref
Bourne,Craig: 'A Future for Presentism' [OUP 2006], p.174
A Reaction
Love it. I don't see how you can even articulate questions about simultaneity if you don't already have a notion of presentness. What are the relata you are enquiring about?
The
14 ideas
from Craig Bourne
14007
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How can presentists talk of 'earlier than', and distinguish past from future?
[Bourne]
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14008
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The redundancy theory conflates metalinguistic bivalence with object-language excluded middle
[Bourne]
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14010
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All relations between spatio-temporal objects are either spatio-temporal, or causal
[Bourne]
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14009
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It is a necessary condition for the existence of relations that both of the relata exist
[Bourne]
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14011
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Presentism seems to deny causation, because the cause and the effect can never coexist
[Bourne]
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14013
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Special Relativity allows an absolute past, future, elsewhere and simultaneity
[Bourne]
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14015
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No-Futurists believe in past and present, but not future, and say the world grows as facts increase
[Bourne]
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14016
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The idea of simultaneity in Special Relativity is full of verificationist assumptions
[Bourne]
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14017
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Since presentists treat the presentness of events as basic, simultaneity should be define by that means
[Bourne]
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14018
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Is Sufficient Reason self-refuting (no reason to accept it!), or is it a legitimate explanatory tool?
[Bourne]
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14019
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Relativity denies simultaneity, so it needs past, present and future (unlike Presentism)
[Bourne]
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14003
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Time is tensed or tenseless; the latter says all times and objects are real, and there is no passage of time
[Bourne]
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14005
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B-series objects relate to each other; A-series objects relate to the present
[Bourne]
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14006
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Time flows, past is fixed, future is open, future is feared but not past, we remember past, we plan future
[Bourne]
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