ejl.st

2.1a The Past and Present Exist but the Future Does Not

2.1a The Past and Present Exist but the Future Does Not

Show: props Folgezettel: = this.slug Path: = this.file.folder

Content

The growing block view of time contends that there is no such thing as the future, since it is undetermined, but that the past and present do exist.1 As the future becomes the present, it is added onto the “growing block” of time, supporting the theory that the universe is growing.2

Growing Block (GB) theorists are committed, roughly, to two theses: (1) that past and present events exist and that future events do not, and (2) that the present is dynamic and constantly changing. -Katarina Perović

Footnotes

  1. # The Roots of C. D. Broad’s Growing Block Theory of Time ↩︎

  2. Three Varieties of Growing Block Theory | Erkenntnis ↩︎

Tags: