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The Burning Fuse Model of Unbecoming in Time

Norton, John D. (2013) The Burning Fuse Model of Unbecoming in Time. In: UNSPECIFIED.

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In the burning fuse model of unbecoming in time, the future is real and past unreal. It is used to motivate the idea that there is something unbecoming in the present literature on the metaphysics of time, whose focus is merely the assigning of a label “real.”


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Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (UNSPECIFIED)
Creators:
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Norton, John D.jdnorton@pitt.edu
Keywords: presentism eternalism endurantism perdurantism time
Subjects: General Issues > Realism/Anti-realism
Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory
Depositing User: John Norton
Date Deposited: 29 Jun 2013 08:22
Last Modified: 29 Jun 2013 08:22
Item ID: 9854
Subjects: General Issues > Realism/Anti-realism
Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory
Date: 19 April 2013
URI: https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/9854

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