presentism

Jul 15

Value supervenes on being

Alexander R Pruss

Consider this thesis, which both Augustine and Aquinas would accept: Value supervenes on being (VSB): How valuable reality is is determined by what entities exist. However: It is good to have a true belief and bad to have a false belief. We now have an argument against presentism (only present...

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Aug 07 2020

What is time?

Jason K. Resch

Download eBook Watch Episode What is time? Few things are so familiar and mysterious. Our lives are governed by time, and yet we have so little understanding of it. In many ways time behaves like a dimension. We move through and have a position in time, just as we move through and...

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