Detecting temporalities

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 47 (3):451-460 (1987)
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This paper argues that A-determinations (past, present, and future) and B-relations (simultaneity and succession) have the same empirical status in that they are all neither historically discoverable nor sensible, but are detectable and are detectable in the same way. This constitutes a reason for thinking they are in the same class with respect to objectivity, contrary to the Russellian view that “in a world in which there was no experience there would be no past, present, or future, but there might well be earlier and later.” The argument is developed to furnish an explanation of how in fact (and contra McTaggart) we are “immediately certain of the reality of time,” the explanation being that we detect time.

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Gilbert Edward Plumer
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The experience and perception of time.Robin Le Poidevin - 2008 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

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