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Single Idea 15205

[filed under theme 27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / e. Tensed (A) series ]

Full Idea

Tensed theorists typically seek to reduce facts about tenseless relations to tensed facts.

Gist of Idea

Tensed theorists typically try to reduce the tenseless to the tensed

Source

Robin Le Poidevin (Past, Present and Future of Debate about Tense [1998], 4 (b))

Book Ref

'Questions of Time and Tense', ed/tr. Le Poidevin,R [OUP 2002], p.33

A Reaction

This presumably involves denial of tenseless truths like '2+2=4', which might become '2+2 is always 4'. I can't see an objection to that. Tooley 1997 is cited as an exception to this idea.

The 4 ideas from 'Past, Present and Future of Debate about Tense'

15198 In the B-series, time-positions are unchanging; in the A-series they change (from future to present to past) [Le Poidevin]
15205 Tensed theorists typically try to reduce the tenseless to the tensed [Le Poidevin]
15206 It is the view of the future that really decides between tensed and tenseless views of time [Le Poidevin]
15207 We want illuminating theories, rather than coherent theories [Le Poidevin]