HON 2010C Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Perdurantism, Mereological Nihilism
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What shape are the things taking in this time experience, time occurence: mctaggart : time is unreal, people made up time so that we don"t feel uncomfortable, that we should have a point of reference for each other. How do we know something is past/present: present is a slippery fish, can talk about the present as a collection of passing experience i. If you try to pin down the idea, it is no longer the present d. In the present, it was heisenberg"s uncertainty principle, didn"t know if in-laws were alive or dead: when we hit crisis points, we become hyper aware of time. In order for something to be past, you must be in the present: temporal framework by itself, with the words earlier and later, it sets up the relationship d, slippery, more fishy f. Socrates will die : he is still socrates, and will soon be in the condition of dead ii.