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Quantitative Parsimony and the Metaphysics of Time: Motivating Presentism
Author(s) -
TALLANT JONATHAN
Publication year - 2013
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.1933-1592.2012.00617.x
Subject(s) - presentism , metaphysics , virtue , epistemology , philosophy , b theory of time
In this paper I argue that presentism—the view that only present objects exist—can be motivated, at least to some degree, by virtue of the fact that it is more quantitatively parsimonious than rival views.