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Presentism and the Problem of Cross‐Time Relations
Author(s) -
CLERCQ Rafael De
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
philosophy and phenomenological research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.7
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 1933-1592
pISSN - 0031-8205
DOI - 10.1111/j.1933-1592.2006.tb00566.x
Subject(s) - presentism , metaphysics , epistemology , b theory of time , confluence , relation (database) , philosophy , mathematics , computer science , database , programming language
Presentism is the view that only present entities exist. Recently, several authors have asked the question whether presentism is able to account for cross‐time relations, i.e., roughly, relations between entities existing at different times. In this paper 1 claim that this question is to be answered in the affirmative. To make this claim plausible, I consider four types of cross‐time relation and show how each can be accommodated without difficulty within the metaphysical framework of presentism.