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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Eker, Bahadir

Titel

Realism about tense and atemporality

Ist Teil von

• Synthese (Dordrecht), 2023-10, Vol.202 (5), p.131, Article 131

Ort / Verlag

Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

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Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Realists about tense, or A-theorists of time, believe that some of the facts that fundamentally constitute reality are tensed, and most of them seem to think that those tensed facts are to be understood as fixing the way things are, absolutely speaking , or simpliciter . But there is a simple yet powerful argument, the argument from atemporality , to the effect that realists should reject the absolutist conception of reality’s constitution by facts because, despite appearances to the contrary, that conception is in fact inconsistent with realism about tense. After presenting the argument, I investigate why the relevant inconsistency has not been recognised so far and point to one possible explanation.