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	Presentism (philosophy of time) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the philosophy of time, presentism is the belief that neither the future nor the past exists.
		The opposite of presentism is 'eternalism', which is a belief that things that are past and things that are yet to come exist.
		Presentism is compatible with Galilean relativity, in which time is independent of space but is probably incompatible with Lorentzian/Einsteinian relativity.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Presentism_(philosophy_of_time) (584 words)

	Time [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		If physical time, psychological time, and biological time are three different kinds of time, then three answers are required to the question "What is time?" and some commentary is required regarding their relationships, such as whether one is the most fundamental.
		Spacetime is four-dimensional and a continuum, with time being a distinguished, one-dimensional sub-space of this continuum.
		Proper time along a worldline in 4-d spacetime is the time elapsed by an object having that worldline, as shown on an ideal clock having the same worldline.
	www.utm.edu /research/iep/t/time.htm (16086 words)

	TIME AND THE DEGREES OF EXISTENCE by Quentin Smithn
		The present tense sense of exists is the “is” (present tense) in “x is”, or is “a presence” in “x is (tenselessly) identical with a presence”.
		Thus degree presentism is, in a sense, half-way between solipsistic presentism and the tenseless theory of time.
		Degree presentism denies that the past and future are nothingness (distinguishing it from solipsist presentism) and denies that the past and future are equally as real as the present (distinguishing it from the tenseless theory of time, as well as from the equal reality version of the tensed theory of time).
	www.qsmithwmu.com /time_and_degrees_of_existence.htm (7075 words)

	Time travel: Philosophy Forums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The time traveler (time surfer should be more suitable a word) doesn't have to make a time trip, he could just make a 'phone call' in the future via tachyon line.
		Time traveling information is not logically any different from time traveling matter, because any transmission of information must begin with a human action.
		Time Travel Theory and The begining of the universe, why life is like a book.
	forums.philosophyforums.com /thread/744/2 (535 words)

	L. Nathan Oaklander - The Ontology of Time - Reviewed by Thomas Crisp, Florida State University - Philosophical Reviews ...
		McTaggart's celebrated paradox presents the observer of contemporary philosophy of time with a puzzling state of affairs.
		Times that are "later than" the present time (i.e., accessible from it) represent how things will be; times that are "earlier than" the present time (i.e.
		This as opposed to 'x is (present tense) F', and 'x is now F', which, arguably, indicate relative to a context of utterance C that x has F-ness at the time of utterance in C.
	ndpr.nd.edu /review.cfm?id=2201 (2009 words)

	Presentism - Theopedia
		Presentism itself is simply a view in the philosophy of time, the view that only the present exists.
		As a matter of sociological fact, very few philosophers who deal with the metaphysics of time consider presentism a viable view given what we know about spacetime in physics, though a few of its defenders are trying to salvage it in the face of such objections.
		Ted Sider, "Presentism and Ontological Commitment" (Sider is not a presentist, but he here defends presentism from the charge that presentism cannot consistently speak of the past and future by appealing to a notion he calls quasi-truth)
	www.theopedia.com /Presentism (923 words)

	Time
		The question of whether there could be time without change has been debated by philosophers since the days of Plato and Aristotle, and has traditionally been thought to be closely tied to the question of whether time exists independently of the events that occur in time.
		On this view, time is like an empty container into which events may be placed; but it is a container that exists independently of whether or not anything is placed in it.
		The Centre for Time at the Department of Philosophy, University of Sydney.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/time (5523 words)

	Oliver Pooley, Oxford Philosophy
		J. M. E. McTaggart, "The Unreality of Time" in Le Poidevin and MacBeath (eds) The Philosophy of Time (OUP, 1993) which is taken from Ch. 33 of McTaggart's The Nature of Existence.
		A. Cortes, "Leibniz's Principle of the Identity of Indiscernibles: A False Principle", Philosophy of Science 43 (1976): 491-505.
		M. Massimi, "Exclusion Principle and the Identity of Indiscernibles: a Response to Margenau's Argument", British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 52 (2001): 303-30.
	users.ox.ac.uk /~ball0402/teaching/app.html (1470 words)

	Quentin Smith Philosopher Vita
		"The Incompatibility of STR and the Tensed Theory of Time", in The Importance of Time, (ed.
		"Williams' Defense of the New Tenseless Theory of Time" in The New Theory of Time, eds.
		Turetzky's Time", British Journal of the Philosophy of Science, forthcoming in 2001.
	www.qsmithwmu.com /vita.htm (2813 words)

	Time Travel Portal :: View topic - Presentism and Eternalism in Perspective (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The distinction between presentism and eternalism is usually sought in some formula like ‘Only presently existing things exist’ or ‘Past, present, and future events are equally real’.
		They are complementary elements of a complete naturalistic philosophy of time.
		Presentism and Eternalism in Perspective by Steven Savitt.
	timetravelportal.com /viewtopic.php?t=959 (217 words)

	Time Travel Portal :: View topic - Presentism and Truthmaking (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The most popular alternative to presentism says that past, present and future things all exist; the universe, on this view, is a four-dimensional space-time manifold, containing everything that has happened, everything that is happening and everything that will happen.
		(Note that this label is sometimes applied to a different view in the philosophy of time, namely, the view that objects have temporal parts — that they persist through time by perduring, rather than enduring.
		Whether or not presentism is plausible depends upon whether or not that price is worth paying.
	timetravelportal.com /viewtopic.php?t=950 (392 words)

	Time
		9; Lewis, The Paradoxes of Time Travel;” Markosian, “The Open Past;”; McCall, A Model of the Universe; Taylor, Metaphysics, Ch.
		Suggestions for Further Reading: Earman, “Recent Work on Time Travel;” Keller and Nelson, “Presentists Should Believe in Time-Travel;” Lewis, The Paradoxes of Time Travel;” Meiland, “A Two-Dimensional Passage Model of Time for Time Travel;” Thorn, Black Holes and Time Warps; Yourgrau, Gödel Meets Einstein: Time Travel in the Gödel Universe; Sider, Four-Dimensionalism.
		Lewis, David, The Paradoxes of Time Travel,” in Lewis, David, Philosophical Papers, Volume 2 (Oxford University Press, 1986).
	www.chronos.msu.ru /TERMS/stanford_time.htm (5480 words)

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