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27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / b. Relative time
13228 There is no time without movement [Aristotle]
27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / h. Presentism
20819 The past and the future subsist, but only the present exists [Chrysippus, by Plutarch]
13990 Presentism is the view that only present objects exist [Markosian]
13992 Presentism says if objects don't exist now, we can't have attitudes to them or relations with them [Markosian]
13994 Presentism seems to entail that we cannot talk about other times [Markosian]
13995 Serious Presentism says things must exist to have relations and properties; Unrestricted version denies this [Markosian]
13996 Maybe Presentists can refer to the haecceity of a thing, after the thing itself disappears [Markosian]
13997 Maybe Presentists can paraphrase singular propositions about the past [Markosian]
13993 Special Relativity denies the absolute present which Presentism needs [Markosian]
27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / k. Temporal truths
13998 Objects in the past, like Socrates, are more like imaginary objects than like remote spatial objects [Markosian]
13999 People are mistaken when they think 'Socrates was a philosopher' says something [Markosian]
27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 3. Parts of Time / e. Present moment
20818 The present does not exist, so our immediate experience is actually part past and part future [Chrysippus, by Plutarch]
20821 Time is continous and infinitely divisible, so there cannot be a wholly present time [Chrysippus, by Stobaeus]
27. Natural Reality / E. Cosmology / 2. Eternal Universe
16595 If each thing can cease to be, why hasn't absolutely everything ceased to be long ago? [Aristotle]