RE: Presentism and Infinite Chain of Past Events
December 11, 2017 at 10:58 am
(This post was last modified: December 11, 2017 at 11:01 am by SteveII.)
(December 11, 2017 at 10:30 am)Grandizer Wrote:(December 11, 2017 at 10:03 am)SteveII Wrote: There is a fundamental flaw in your question. You think that eternalism avoids the problem of past infinite series of events. It does not.
Under eternalism, there is no series of events happening, not in a time-flowing sense. Past moments and future moments are just as real as present moments, in the same way that the USA is just as real as Canada.
Quote:Tell me, on your version of eternalism philosophy of time, do you think causality is a feature of reality? Is entropy a thing? Is the universe expanding? Are you the same person on December 11 as the person on December 10?
Yes (but not in the sense you might be thinking of), yes (see Sean Carroll for that one), yes, yes/no (depending on the angle you're looking at this, and how you are defining the self).
You didn't answer the question. Are the timeslices causally related? In other words, can we put the timeslices in an order based upon causal principles? If we can do that, you have a problem with past infinite causation.
Regarding you yesterday and today. If Dec 10th's Grandizer commits a crime, should Dec 11th's Grandizer be punished for it? Why?
