Dummett on the Time-Continuum

Philosophy 80 (311):135 - 140 (2005)
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Abstract

Michael Dummett claims that the classical model of time as a continuum of instants has to be rejected. In his view, “it allows as possibilities what reason rules out, and leaves it to the contingent laws of physics to rule out what a good model of physical reality would not even be able to describe.” This paper argues otherwise

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