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'fragments/reports', 'The Nature of Existence vol.2' and 'Attitudes De Dicto and De Se'
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27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / b. Relative time
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For McTaggart time is seen either as fixed, or as relative to events [McTaggart, by Ayer]
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27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / h. Presentism
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The past and the future subsist, but only the present exists [Chrysippus, by Plutarch]
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27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / i. Denying time
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A-series time positions are contradictory, and yet all events occupy all of them! [McTaggart, by Le Poidevin]
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Time involves change, only the A-series explains change, but it involves contradictions, so time is unreal [McTaggart, by Lowe]
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27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / a. Experience of time
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There could be no time if nothing changed [McTaggart]
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27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / d. Time series
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The B-series can be inferred from the A-series, but not the other way round [McTaggart, by Le Poidevin]
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A-series uses past, present and future; B-series uses 'before' and 'after' [McTaggart, by Girle]
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A-series expressions place things in time, and their truth varies; B-series is relative, and always true [McTaggart, by Lowe]
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The B-series must depend on the A-series, because change must be explained [McTaggart, by Le Poidevin]
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27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 3. Parts of Time / e. Present moment
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The present does not exist, so our immediate experience is actually part past and part future [Chrysippus, by Plutarch]
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Time is continous and infinitely divisible, so there cannot be a wholly present time [Chrysippus, by Stobaeus]
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