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| | Time [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
 | | This arrow becomes less and less apparent to us viewers as the film subject gets smaller and smaller and the time interval gets shorter and shorter until finally we are viewing processes that could just as easily go the other way, at which point the arrow of time has disappeared. |
 | | The propositions that are expressed at each particular time, such as "It is raining at midnight on Jan. 1, 2000 in Chicago," do not change their truth values through time, but are timelessly true; and so the flow of time cannot be explained in terms of them. |
 | | Assuming it did rain in Chicago then, this latter tenseless sentence can be used to express a proposition that is true when uttered on Jan. 1, 2000, but is not true in 1950. |
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