Eternalism and the problem of hyperplanes.
Eternalism is the view that the past, the present and the future exist simpliciter. A typical argument in favor of this view leans on the relativity of simultaneity. The 'equally real with' relation is assumed to be transitive between spacelike separated events connected by hyperplanes of simultanei...
| Publicado en: | Ratio Vol. 35; no. 2; pp. 91 - 104 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Jun2022
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