RE: Presentism and Infinite Chain of Past Events
December 11, 2017 at 11:33 am
(This post was last modified: December 11, 2017 at 11:33 am by Edwardo Piet.)
(December 11, 2017 at 10:30 am)Grandizer Wrote: My bad. Ok, how did we reach the present from no beginning, according to presentism?
Because existence is eternal . . . as in, it had no beginning or end.
What I'm against is temporal eternalism. The view that all times exist equally at the same time . . . which is incoherent nonsense. The present is all that is present. The past and the future are always absent. They are not what exists but what did exist and will exist respectively. Temporal presentism is the view that only the present exists. I hold that view.
Existence itself has no beginning or end. Existence itself as a whole is eternal. Time isn't. Time is either illusory as a whole or the present is all that exists.
