Single Idea 15077

[catalogued under 27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / c. Tenses and time]

Full Idea

It is said that there is no room in the A-theorists' ontology for a realm of timeless existents. Just as there is a tendency to think that every sentence is tensed, so there is a tendency to think that every object must enjoy a tensed form of existence.

Gist of Idea

It is said that in the A-theory, all existents and objects must be tensed, as well as the sentences

Source

Kit Fine (Necessity and Non-Existence [2005], 10)

Book Reference

Fine,Kit: 'Modality and Tense' [OUP 2005], p.351


A Reaction

Fine is arguing for certain things to exist or be true independently of time (such as arithmetic, or essential identities). I struggle with the notion of timeless existence.