Prosser Temporal Metaphysics in Z - Land
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چکیده
John Perry (1986) has argued that language, thought and experience often contain unarticulated constituents. John Campbell (1993, 1994, 1998) has taken up a similar theme with his distinction between monadic and relational notions and the related notion of causal indexicals, as has Sydney Shoemaker (1994). I shall argue (using Perry’s terminology) that the presence of unarticulated constituents in temporal thought and experience is the key to understanding and explaining away the intuitive appeal of the A-theory of time. I shall also make some slightly more cautious remarks suggesting that a similar idea can explain away the intuitive appeal of the endurance theory of persistence. I shall not offer direct refutations of these doctrines (though I shall offer some criticism of the A-theory); rather, my aim is to show that the opposing doctrines, the B-theory and the perdurance view, are entirely consistent with the strong impression that many people have that time is tensed and objects endure.
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