Single Idea 14736

[catalogued under 27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / f. Tenseless (B) series]

Full Idea

The B-theoretic description of the world is completely adequate except that it leaves out information about which time is present.

Gist of Idea

The B-theory is adequate, except that it omits to say which time is present

Source

Theodore Sider (Four Dimensionalism [2001], 4.6)

Book Reference

Sider,Theodore: 'Four Dimensionalism' [OUP 2003], p.94


A Reaction

This strikes me as a pretty basic deficiency. How could there a time which lacked a present moment? The present is when things happen. How would it qualify as time at all if it lacked past, present and future?