Friday, May 03, 2013

In case you wondered ...

... Maverick Philosopher: Why Do We Need Philosophy? (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Time is paramount?  No doubt! No time, no physics.  All of reality is in the present moment?  So what happened in the past is not part of reality?  When we inquire into what happened, whether as historians or as cosmologists, what then are we inquiring into?  Unreality? Mere possibility? Fiction?  Do you really want to say that all of reality is in the present moment?  There is a deep confusion here …

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