Existence as a Real Property by Francesco Berto

Author:Francesco Berto
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

35I say “perhaps” because there may be relevant asymmetries between past and future. Some of them have to do with there being causal chains hooking back from the present to the past, which apparently lack between the future and the present. This makes more difficult, for instance, to refer to future things than to past things – despite my brushing the problem under the carpet, for the sake of simplicity, in the first female pope example. Perhaps past existents exist, but the universe is constantly growing, as future things pop into existence (I’m not even sure whether this position is appropriately labeled as “eternalism” in the literature). To the issue of how to refer to future things I shall come back in Chap. 9.

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