Can we Describe Possible Circumstances in which we would have Most Reason to Believe that Time is Two-dimensional?
How one answers the question whether time could be two-dimensional depends upon what one takes to be the essential properties of time. I assume that it is essential to time that it has a ‘sense’ or ‘direction’; and, on the basis of this assumption, I argue that no-one has yet succeeded in giving a c...
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