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Single Idea 4226

[catalogued under 27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / e. Eventless time]

Full Idea

If region A has a year's 'freeze' every three years, region B does it every four years, and C every five years, every sixty years they would all freeze, and there would be no witnesses. The simplest hypothesis is that a year passes with no events.

Gist of Idea

If three regions 'freeze' every three, four and five years, after sixty years everything stops for a year

Source

report of Sydney Shoemaker (Time Without Change [1969]) by E.J. Lowe - A Survey of Metaphysics p.247

Book Reference

Lowe,E.J.: 'A Survey of Metaphysics' [OUP 2002], p.247


A Reaction

Lovely argument. I definitely vote for there being a year of time with no events, even though it contradicats Einstein and the rest. As usual, we should be doing ontology, but get lured into epistemology.