Look at the time!

Analysis 82 (1):15-23 (2022)
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I argue that we can get evidence for the temporal ontology of the universe simply by looking at the time. The argument is an extension of the ‘epistemic objection’ towards Growing Block theories.

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10.1093/analys/anab008

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