Tenses, changes, and space-time

In Time in the Different Scientific Approaches. Genova: Tilgher. pp. 89-104 (2008)
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Here I develop the idea, which I have presented elsewhere, that time instants are abstract entities existing tenselessly and therefore that events and changes likewise may be said to exist tenselessly in virtue of their place at a certain space-time point.

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