Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'The Privileged Present: A-Theory', 'fragments/reports' and 'What is an Idea?'

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4 ideas

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 8. Transcendental Necessity

490	Everything happens by reason and necessity [Leucippus]

18. Thought / C. Content / 2. Ideas

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By an 'idea' I mean not an actual thought, but the resources we can draw on to think [Leibniz]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / g. Growing block

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Neither 'moving spotlight' nor 'growing block' views explain why we care what is present or past [Zimmerman,DW]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / e. Tensed (A) series

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A-theorists, unlike B-theorists, believe some sort of objective distinction between past, present and future [Zimmerman,DW]