Quentin Smith on infinity and the past
Philosophy of Science 55 (3):453-455 (1988)
| Abstract | In a recent commendable article, Quentin Smith (1987) exposes fatal flaws in several recent attempts to demonstrate that it is logically impossible for the past to be infinite. However, his analysis of one of these flawed arguments--involving an interesting version of Russell's "Tristram Shandy paradox"--is off the mark, as I show in this paper | |||||||||
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