Imprints in time: towards a moderately robust past.
Presentism says that only present objects exist (timelessly). But the view has trouble grounding past-tensed truths like “dinosaurs existed”. Standard Eternalism grounds those truths by positing the (timeless) existence of past objects—like dinosaurs. But Standard Eternalism conflicts with the intui...
| Publicado en: | Philosophical Studies Vol. 175; no. 10; pp. 2429 - 2447 |
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