Eternalism | Metaphysics

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Citations:
M.J. Loux & T.M. Crisp, Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge Press, 2017).
A. Ney, Metaphysics: An Introduction (2nd edn, Routledge Press, 2023). [Old Editions available].
Further Reading:
T. Crane & K. Farkas, Metaphysics: A Guide and Anthology (Oxford University Press, 2004).
M.J. Loux & D.W. Zimmerman, The Oxford Handbook of Metaphysics (Oxford University Press, 2005).
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[@andreab380]

Possible alternatives based on Ney's argument:
1) Relativity has serious epistemological problems. A philosopher should engage with such problems even if in a given historical period there is widespread agreement on a theory with problems. The issue here is that relativity is incompatible with quantum physics. This has to mean something about our knowledge, including our knowledge of time.
2) The conclusion that reality is dependent on the subject's perspective is rejected without argument. It may well be the case that there is no absolute objective reality. This doesn't mean that reality doesn't exist, but just that it is some kind of process that gives rise to both subject and object.

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All of this is just verbal confusion, very much as Wittgenstein said. Or, more precisely, verbal confusion hiding circular reasoning (i.e., absurd).
"The past exists as much as the present!" - Then how do you define existence? - "Existence is how the past and the present are present to us."
WELL, GREAT.

[@ll-nd1cj]

Existence Can be demonstrated with causal power. no causal power = No existence

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@@ll-nd1cj that's nice in theory, but practically how can you demonstrate causal power of things in the past? no more than teleologically that of the future.
At best you can demonstrate causal power of the NOW as it recedes into the past, creating a new NOW.

[@HeikkiJuntunen-f7n]

When the discussion becomes philosophical, then it becomes as stupid BS as religion. Philosophical or religious world of thought has no place alongside science. Science should be kept away from questionable hypotheses and then only bring them to people's attention when the hypothesis has been shaped into a provable theory.

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[@dontveter3372]

I agree that philosophy never seems to actually solve anything. However, in the case of eternalism, physicists refer to it as the block universe. Many prominent physicists intellectually accept the block universe but they’ve failed to fully embrace it for various reasons.