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Full Idea
Eternalism says all times are equally real. Objects existing at past times and objects existing at future times are just as real as objects existing at the present. Properties had at past and future times are as much properties as those at the present.
Gist of Idea
Eternalism says all times are equally real, and future and past objects and properties are real
Source
Trenton Merricks (Goodbye Growing Block [2006], 1)
Book Ref
'Oxford Studies in Metaphysics vol.2', ed/tr. Zimmerman,Dean W. [OUP 2006], p.103
A Reaction
He adds that the present is therefore 'subjective', resulting from one's perspective. Why would eternalists reject their subjective experiences of time, unless they reject all their other subjective experiences as well?
| 15202 | Eternity coexists with passing time, as the centre of a circle coexists with its circumference [Aquinas] |
| 8197 | Maybe past (which affects us) and future (which we can affect) are both real [Dummett] |
| 15024 | The spotlight theorists accepts eternal time, but with a spotlight of the present moving across it [Sider] |
| 17960 | Eternalism says all times are equally real, and future and past objects and properties are real [Merricks] |
| 14020 | 'Eternalism' is the thesis that reality includes past, present and future entities [Crisp,TM] |
| 15104 | The 'moving spotlight' theory makes one time privileged, while all times are on a par ontologically [Cameron] |
| 19026 | If time is symmetrical between past and future, why do they look so different? [Vetter] |
| 22988 | The block universe theory says entities of all times exist, and time is the B-series [Baron/Miller] |