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Single Idea 22900
[filed under theme 27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / i. Denying time
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Full Idea
Even questioning the passage of time may be self-defeating: can any question be meaningfully asked or understood without presuming the passage of time from the inception of the question to its conclusion?
Gist of Idea
How can we question the passage of time, if the question takes time to ask?
Source
Adrian Bardon (Brief History of the Philosophy of Time [2013], 4 'Pervasive')
Book Ref
Bardon,Adrian: 'Brief History of the Philosophy of Time' [OUP 2013], p.98
A Reaction
[He cites P.J. Zwart for this] We can at least, in B-series style, specify the starting and finishing times of the question, without talk of its passage. Nice point, though.
The
24 ideas
from Adrian Bardon
22889
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We should treat time as adverbial, so we don't experience time, we experience things temporally
[Bardon, by Bardon]
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22882
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We use calendars for the order of events, and clocks for their passing
[Bardon]
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22883
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It seems hard to understand change without understanding time first
[Bardon]
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22886
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The modern idea of 'limit' allows infinite quantities to have a finite sum
[Bardon]
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22884
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The motion of a thing should be a fact in the present moment
[Bardon]
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22890
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We experience static states (while walking round a house) and observe change (ship leaving dock)
[Bardon]
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22892
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Experiences of motion may be overlapping, thus stretching out the experience
[Bardon]
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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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22900
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How can we question the passage of time, if the question takes time to ask?
[Bardon]
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22898
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What is time's passage relative to, and how fast does it pass?
[Bardon]
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22902
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Why does an effect require a prior event if the prior event isn't a cause?
[Bardon]
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22897
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The A-series says a past event is becoming more past, but how can it do that?
[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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22910
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To define time's arrow by causation, we need a timeless definition of causation
[Bardon]
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22909
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We judge memories to be of the past because the events cause the memories
[Bardon]
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22904
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The psychological arrow of time is the direction from our memories to our anticipations
[Bardon]
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22906
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The direction of entropy is probabilistic, not necessary, so cannot be identical to time's arrow
[Bardon]
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22907
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It is arbitrary to reverse time in a more orderly universe, but not in a sub-system of it
[Bardon]
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22905
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Becoming disordered is much easier for a system than becoming ordered
[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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22911
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At least eternal time gives time travellers a possible destination
[Bardon]
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22912
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Time travel is not a paradox if we include it in the eternal continuum of events
[Bardon]
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22914
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An equally good question would be why there was nothing instead of something
[Bardon]
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22913
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The universe expands, so space-time is enlarging
[Bardon]
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