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Single Idea 22987

[catalogued under 27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / k. Temporal truths]

Full Idea

It is the existence of past objects that explains why the past is fixed, and why there are truths about the past, and it is the non-existence of future objects that explains why the future is malleable.

Gist of Idea

The past (unlike the future) is fixed, along with truths about it, by the existence of past objects

Source

Baron,S/Miller,K (Intro to the Philosophy of Time [2019], 1.3)

A Reaction

The authors label this view 'EntityNowandThenism', and it comes in a section on the 'Temporal Ontology'.

Book Reference

Baron,S/Miller,K: 'Introduction to the Philosophy of Time' [Polity 2019], p.15