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Ideas of C.D. Broad, by Text
[British, 1887 - 1971, Professor at Bristol University, and then Professor of Moral Philosophy at Cambridge University.]
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p.1
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The present and past exist, but the future does not [Dummett]
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10 'Duration'
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p.393
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A thing is simply a long event, linked by qualities, and spatio-temporal unity
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II
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p.59
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We imagine the present as a spotlight, moving across events from past to future
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II
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p.66
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We could say present and past exist, but not future, so that each event adds to the total history
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p.54
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p.31
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If short-lived happenings like car crashes are 'events', why not long-lived events like Dover Cliffs?
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1925
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Mind and Its Place in Nature
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p.7
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Broad rejects the inferential component of the representative theory [Maund]
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1933
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Examination of McTaggart's Philosophy
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I.349-50
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p.186
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Surely the past phases of a thing are not parts of the thing?
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