(April 23, 2018 at 2:58 pm)henryp Wrote:(April 23, 2018 at 2:51 pm)Hammy Wrote: By a block universe do you mean like what Parmenides described?
Well for me it's simply that anything but presentism seems to lead to logical contradictions. To say that all times exist now is to say that the past and the future are happening now which makes no sense because the future is by definition what isn't happening yet and the past is by definition what isn't happening anymore.
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Oh I don't agree with this at all. The past doesn't exist any more than the future does.
I read an article attributing something else to block universe. I guess Eternalism is what I'm looking for?
What you're looking for is the block theory indeed, which is eternalism. Not to be confused with the growing block theory (where past still exists but future has not yet occurred).
By the way, Hammy is a presentist noumenologically, but scientifically, he seems to agree with the current science of time (as defined in science).
