Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'The Tenseless Theory of Time', 'Letters to Leibniz' and 'works'

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6 ideas

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 1. Nature of Metaphysics

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Metaphysics should avoid talk of past, present or future [Smart]

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 4. Powers as Essence

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The question is whether force is self-sufficient in bodies, and essential, or dependent on something [Lenfant]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / e. Human nature

7667	There are two sides to men - the pleasantly social, and the violent and creative [Diderot, by Berlin]

27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 1. Relativity / a. Special relativity

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Special relativity won't determine a preferred frame, but we can pick one externally [Smart]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / b. Rate of time

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If time flows, then 'how fast does it flow?' is a tricky question [Smart]

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

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The past, present, future and tenses of A-theory are too weird, and should be analysed indexically [Smart]