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Seeing the Present
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Abstract
Philosophers of time fall into two broad camps. For detensers, the present is an epistemological/subjective notion reflecting our limited knowledge at any time of a temporally extended reality, just as where we are limits our knowledge of distant objects (Taylor 1955; Quine 1960: section 36; Me1lor 1981). Tensers distrust this analogy between the present and the locat for them the present but not the local is an ontological/objective notion (Prior 1959, I 970; Dummett 1960; Gale 1968: 213). This crude contrast is made more precise in various ways. For example, detensers accept the idea of an actual past and future-what in fact has happened and will happen; tensers usually reject the idea of an actual future, and sometimes (Dummett 1968; Prior 1970) of an actual past.
Title: Seeing the Present
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Abstract
Philosophers of time fall into two broad camps.
For detensers, the present is an epistemological/subjective notion reflecting our limited knowledge at any time of a temporally extended reality, just as where we are limits our knowledge of distant objects (Taylor 1955; Quine 1960: section 36; Me1lor 1981).
Tensers distrust this analogy between the present and the locat for them the present but not the local is an ontological/objective notion (Prior 1959, I 970; Dummett 1960; Gale 1968: 213).
This crude contrast is made more precise in various ways.
For example, detensers accept the idea of an actual past and future-what in fact has happened and will happen; tensers usually reject the idea of an actual future, and sometimes (Dummett 1968; Prior 1970) of an actual past.
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