The Past; Its Nature and Reality

Review of Metaphysics 5 (4):507 - 522 (1952)
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Let us begin--as we must end--with the present. It is here that our problems arise; it is here that we find our material; it is here that we must look, sooner or later, in order to determine whether our solutions are sensible or not.

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