RE: Is the Past Real?
December 18, 2022 at 11:39 pm
(This post was last modified: December 18, 2022 at 11:47 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Quote: Sure, an empiricist is justified in thinking a prior stae (the past) must have existed. But how can an empiricist justify the assumption that the future will some day exist?Without answering the question itself, I can say that this formulation of the question answers the question, itself. If an empiricist is justified in thinking that a prior state existed, then they are in a then-future state now, and so, a now-future state later is equally plausible.
My opinion, it's more difficult for an empricist to rid themselves of time - past or future...and this could ultimately be more of an issue than trying to justify why, by sense experience, we believe in or perceive time as we do. Ultimately, what we think of time may not be so - but it would still be the case that things (external and human) are arranged in such a way as to give the overwhelming impression of such. We'd be wrong for good reasons, at least with respect to what empiricism considers good reason.
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