Temporal Reference Without the Concept of Time?
In this article I argue that whatever the preferred construal of time is, it is
always further reducible to one that assumes tenseless reality. In particular,
I argue for the superiority of an approach according to which the differences
between the future, present and past are quantitative on the level of basic building
blocks over a more intuitive view on which the differences are, as on the
surface level, qualitative. I demonstrate that a qualitative construal is reducible
to a quantitative one and that as such the latter fares better with the B-theoretic,
tenseless outlook on reality.
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