B-theory of time - Wikipedia
网页The B-theory of time, also called the "tenseless theory of time", is one of two positions regarding the temporal ordering of events in the philosophy of time. B-theorists argue that the flow of time is only a subjective illusion of human consciousness, that the past, present, and future are equally real, and that time is tenseless: temporal ...
Time - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
网页2002年11月25日 — This article contains a brief overview of some of the main topics in the philosophy of time—(1) fatalism; (2) reductionism and Platonism with respect to time; (3) the topology of time; (4) McTaggart’s argument; (5) the A-theory and the B-theory; (6) presentism, eternalism, and the growing block theory; (7) the 3D/4D debate about …
Time - Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
网页12. McTaggart’s A-Theory and B-Theory. In 1908, the English philosopher J.M.E. McTaggart proposed two ways of linearly ordering all events in time. The two ways are different, but the two orderings are the same. Here is how he re-states his kernel idea:
A series and B series - Wikipedia
网页In metaphysics, the A series and the B series are two different descriptions of the temporal ordering relation among events. The two series differ principally in their use of tense to describe the temporal relation between events and …
Time, metaphysics of - Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
网页The B-theory is also described as the static, or block universe theory of time. Since it rejects the distinction between past, present and future, it also rejects the associated view that time is essentially dynamic.
The Arrow of Time - Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
网页George Ellis promoted the cosmological arrow of spatial expansion as the key to understanding time’s arrow. He advocated an intrinsic theory of time’s arrow via a growing-block theory in which: The cosmological direction of time…is set by the start of the universe.
Time (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Summer 2020 Edition)
网页2002年11月25日 — These philosophers accept the view (sometimes called “The B Theory”) that the B series is all there is to time. According to The B Theory, there are no genuine, unanalyzable A properties, and all talk that appears to be about A properties is really reducible to talk about B relations.
Temporal Parts - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
网页2004年2月1日 — Advocates of the ‘A-theory’ of time argue that the flow of time pushes events from one ontological status to another (presentists are usually taken to be A-theorists too). But advocates of the ‘B-theory’ of time think that there is no important ontological difference between past, present and future, and that there is no such thing as ...
8 The B-theory and the passage of time - Oxford Academic
网页Most B-theorists defend the reality of both time and change. Overwhelmingly, however, they deny that time genuinely passes, insisting that the passage of time is some kind of cognitive illusion.
Time, Language, and Ontology: The World from the B-Theoretic ...
网页2015年1月29日 — In other words, a version of the B-theory of time is defended. It is argued, first, that eternalism—the view that all times are equally real—is the proper ontology of time. Then a semantics of tensed language and belief is presented that is entirely tenseless, hence compatible with eternalism.