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Full Idea
If all past, present and future events timelessly coexist, then at least there is a potential destination for the time traveller. …The Presentist treats past and future events as nonexistent, so there is no place for the time traveller to go.
Gist of Idea
At least eternal time gives time travellers a possible destination
Source
Adrian Bardon (Brief History of the Philosophy of Time [2013], 6 'Fictional')
Book Ref
Bardon,Adrian: 'Brief History of the Philosophy of Time' [OUP 2013], p.128
A Reaction
Not a good reason to believe in the eternal block of time, of course. The growing block has a past which can be visited, but no future.
| 23019 | The interesting time travel is when personal and external time come apart [Lewis, by Baron/Miller] |
| 23021 | Lewis said it might just be that travellers to the past can't kill their grandfathers [Lewis, by Baron/Miller] |
| 22911 | At least eternal time gives time travellers a possible destination [Bardon] |
| 22912 | Time travel is not a paradox if we include it in the eternal continuum of events [Bardon] |
| 23020 | If a time traveller kills his youthful grandfather, he both exists and fails to exist [Baron/Miller] |
| 23022 | Presentism means there no existing past for a time traveller to visit [Baron/Miller] |