How do we know it is now now?

Discusses a theory of time which philosophers found to share features of dimensionalism. Existence of the future; Definition of the past as a space-time volume of the kind which dimensionalists think as a Parmenidean whole; Link of the present to the kind of hyperplane which borders reality.

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Published in:Analysis Vol. 64; no. 3; pp. 199 - 204
Main Author: Braddon-Mitchell, David
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Published: Oxford University Press / USA Jul2004
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