PHILOS 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Indexicality, Sydney Shoemaker, Tensed, Idaho
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Philos 2 lecture 4 proof of the unreality of time. John mctaggart ellis mctaggart: m(cid:272)taggart"s idealis(cid:373): (cid:449)hat (cid:449)e see as (cid:272)e(cid:374)tral features of realit(cid:455) are (cid:373)erely ideal- dependent on the mind; their existence of being objectively real is an illusion. >only the mind gives them existence: mctaggart most famous for argument that our ordinary view that things really exist in ti(cid:373)e is false > (cid:862)the u(cid:374)realit(cid:455) of ti(cid:373)e(cid:863) Two conceptions of time: b-series of time (dated series/static time series) (objective, relating events i(cid:374) ter(cid:373)s of (cid:862)earlier tha(cid:374)(cid:863) or (cid:862)later tha(cid:374)(cid:863, provides coherent ordering of events, every point in time treated the same, has the same status. Ex: (cid:862)toda(cid:455),(cid:863) (cid:862)to(cid:373)orro(cid:449),(cid:863) a(cid:374)d (cid:862)fi(cid:448)e (cid:449)eeks ago(cid:863) Indexicals: words whose meaning are determined by context of the speaker, the time and space of speech. Adjectives- my, your, past, present, future, left/right (cid:862)i a(cid:373) prese(cid:374)tl(cid:455) sta(cid:374)di(cid:374)g here, to (cid:455)our left. (cid:863) (cid:894)only speaker allowed to say this, his perspe(cid:272)ti(cid:448)e is differe(cid:374)t tha(cid:374) e(cid:448)er(cid:455)o(cid:374)e else"s(cid:895)
