https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/631764
標題: | An old GBT's new solution | 作者: | HSIEN-CHIEH NIHEL JHOU | 關鍵字: | The Sarvastivada; causation; presentness; the moving spotlight theory; the growing block theory; the present problem; TIME; PRESENTISM; BUDDHIST; REAL | 公開日期: | 2022 | 出版社: | ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD | 起(迄)頁: | 1-14 | 來源出版物: | INQUIRY-AN INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY | 摘要: | An advantage of a typical growing block theory (GBT) or moving spotlight theory (MST) is that it can easily account for tenseless or tensed truths involving past entities. The paper indicates what is required for such an advantage is that a particular like a rock doesn’t change its status of being a rock when turning past from being present. But a typical GBT or MST, which implies that a particular’s turning past from being present doesn’t make a physical difference, faces a series of problems. The paper then regards the exclusion of the implication of making no physical difference by a typical GBT or MST as the second requirement for being a tenable GBT or MST. It’s difficult to satisfy both requirements–even Miller’s (2019) MWT fails to do so. The paper shall reveal how a GBT can satisfy both requirements. |
URI: | https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/631764 | ISSN: | 0020-174X | DOI: | 10.1080/0020174X.2022.2150304 |
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