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27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / a. Explaining movement
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Maybe motion is a dynamical quantity intrinsic to a thing at a particular time [Sider]
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27. Natural Reality / C. Space / 6. Space-Time
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14735
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Space is 3D and lacks a direction; time seems connected to causation [Sider]
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27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / g. Growing block
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14722
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Between presentism and eternalism is the 'growing block' view - the past is real, the future is not [Sider]
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27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / h. Presentism
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For Presentists there must always be a temporal vantage point for any description [Sider]
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Presentists must deny truths about multiple times [Sider]
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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 / 2. Passage of Time / c. Tenses and time
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14723
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Talk using tenses can be eliminated, by reducing it to indexical connections for an utterance [Sider]
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27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / f. Tenseless (B) series
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The B-series involves eternalism, and the reduction of tense [Sider]
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The B-theory is adequate, except that it omits to say which time is present [Sider]
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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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