The Impossibility of Temporal Relations Between Non-Identical Times: New Arguments for Presentism

Jeffrey Grupp

doi:10.2478/disp-2005-0001

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The Impossibility of Temporal Relations Between Non-Identical Times: New Arguments for Presentism

Disputatio

Volume 1 (2005): Issue 18 (May 2005)

By: Jeffrey Grupp

Open Access

|Dec 2018

Abstract

I argue that relations between non-identical times, such as the relations, earlier than, later than, or 10 seconds apart, involve contradiction, and only co-temporal relations are non-contradictory, which would leave presentism the only non-contradictory theory of time. The arguments I present are arguments that I have not seen in the literature.

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