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The commonsense tensed 'exist' is not a good model to 'only my light cone exists'. The former says that events in my causal past and future do not exist, for ex
by Schiphol 4y ago
The commonsense tensed 'exist' is not a good model to 'only my light cone exists'. The former says that events in my causal past and future do not exist, for example. The latter only makes sense as a proposal about some unrestricted notion of existence. More or less: what is the smallest catalogue of entities I need to commit myself to, if I want to make sense of the science?
- pdonis 4y ago> what is the smallest catalogue of entities I need to commit myself to, if I want to make sense of the science? I'm fine with this formulation, because I think the answer to it is the one I gave: the past light cone of your "here and now".