Roots of C. D. Broad's Growing Block Theory of Time.
The growing block view of time holds that the past and present are real whilst the future is unreal; as future events become present and real, they are added on to the growing block of reality. Surprisingly, given the recent interest in this view, there is very little literature on its origins. This...
| Publicado en: | Mind (0026-4423) Vol. 128; no. 510; pp. 527 - 550 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Apr2019
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