Eternalism
Past, present, and future events are equally real.
What it claims
Eternalism treats events at every time as real, often pictured as a block universe. On its familiar tenseless version, “now” functions like “here”: it locates a speaker rather than dividing reality into what exists and what does not. McTaggart's distinction (1908) separates the A-series of past, present, and future from the B-series of earlier-than and later-than relations.
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Key thinkers
Hermann Minkowski · C. W. Rietdijk · Hilary Putnam · D. H. Mellor · Theodore Sider