15 ideas
14025 | The weaker version of Truthmaker: 'truth supervenes on being' [Crisp,TM] |
14023 | The Truthmaker thesis spells trouble for presentists [Crisp,TM] |
14024 | Truthmaker has problems with generalisation, non-existence claims, and property instantiations [Crisp,TM] |
14759 | A thing is simply a long event, linked by qualities, and spatio-temporal unity [Broad] |
14963 | Surely the past phases of a thing are not parts of the thing? [Broad] |
11842 | If short-lived happenings like car crashes are 'events', why not long-lived events like Dover Cliffs? [Broad] |
14021 | Worm Perdurantism has a fusion of all the parts; Stage Perdurantism has one part at a time [Crisp,TM] |
7628 | Broad rejects the inferential component of the representative theory [Broad, by Maund] |
14020 | 'Eternalism' is the thesis that reality includes past, present and future entities [Crisp,TM] |
8160 | The present and past exist, but the future does not [Broad, by Dummett] |
14609 | We could say present and past exist, but not future, so that each event adds to the total history [Broad] |
14026 | Presentists can talk of 'times', with no more commitment than modalists have to possible worlds [Crisp,TM] |
22933 | We imagine the present as a spotlight, moving across events from past to future [Broad] |
14022 | The only three theories are Presentism, Dynamic (A-series) Eternalism and Static (B-series) Eternalism [Crisp,TM] |
1558 | Clearly the gods ignore human affairs, or they would have given us justice [Thrasymachus] |