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Single Idea 14734
[filed under theme 27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / f. Tenseless (B) series
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Full Idea
The B-series has two components: eternalism - the thesis that all future entities are real - and the thesis of reducibility of tense.
Gist of Idea
The B-series involves eternalism, and the reduction of tense
Source
Theodore Sider (Four Dimensionalism [2001], 4.2)
Book Ref
Sider,Theodore: 'Four Dimensionalism' [OUP 2003], p.76
The
12 ideas
with the same theme
[B-series, of equal times, with no past-present-future]:
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13713
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Quine holds time to be 'space-like': past objects are as real as spatially remote ones
[Quine, by Sider]
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15193
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The new tenseless theory offers indexical truth-conditions, instead of a reductive analysis
[Le Poidevin]
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15066
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B-theorists say tensed sentences have an unfilled argument-place for a time
[Fine,K]
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22938
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To say that the past causes the present needs them both to be equally real
[Le Poidevin]
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22939
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The B-series doesn't seem to allow change
[Le Poidevin]
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22940
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If the B-universe is eternal, why am I trapped in a changing moment of it?
[Le Poidevin]
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14734
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The B-series involves eternalism, and the reduction of tense
[Sider]
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14736
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The B-theory is adequate, except that it omits to say which time is present
[Sider]
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22901
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The B-series needs a revised view of causes, laws and explanations
[Bardon]
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22896
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The B-series is realist about time, but idealist about its passage
[Bardon]
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22903
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The B-series adds directionality when it accepts 'earlier' and 'later'
[Bardon]
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23007
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The B-series can have a direction, as long as it does not arise from temporal flow
[Baron/Miller]
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