Inconsistency in the A-Theory.
This paper presents a new argument against A-theories of time. A-theorists hold that there is an objective now (present moment) and an objective flow of time, the latter constituted by the movement of the objective now through time. A-theorists therefore want to draw different pictures of reality-sh...
| Publicado en: | Philosophical Studies Vol. 156; no. 2; pp. 231 - 248 |
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