Titlebook: Change, Cause and Contradiction; A Defence of the Ten Robin Poidevin Book 1991 The Scots Philosophical Club 1991 Defence.metaphysics.philos

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22756-3Let us begin by rehearsing what we should require of an adequate account of change.

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Tenseless Change,Let us begin by rehearsing what we should require of an adequate account of change.

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22756-3e was that, in defining change in terms of causation, such an account would have as a non-trivial consequence the result that time is the dimension of change. Such a hope is dashed if Hume’s stipulation is inevitable.

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22756-3by Russell, the doctrine of temporal parts was seen as a consequence of . rather than philosophy. In particular, relativity theory requires a view of objects as extended in the four-dimensional manifold. Such four-dimensional objects have temporal, as well as spatial, parts.

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Introduction,be discussing. The debate between them has raged for over eighty years, and it shows no sign of abating. Unfortunately, however, the participants are rarely at one in the interpretation of the two theories, so my task in this Introduction is to make clear what I take to be the essential features of each.

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