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@AlCabbage045@DerMenschensohn@MohamedAharrou I think you should give the block theory a read too. A lot of philosophers take the A theory. not a fringe idea at all. Fun fact. A lot of B theorists did change their mind and adopted th A theory.
@AlCabbage045@DerMenschensohn@MohamedAharrou I don't disagree, I just don't think the issue goes away. If we are talking about causal finitism. Also, i wouldn't say it comepletely destoys the A theory, it's still alive and kicking in philosophy.
@AlCabbage045@DerMenschensohn@MohamedAharrou But if you’re talking about temporal becoming — one state giving rise to the next — then an infinite past looks hard to make sense of, regardless of PSR.
@AlCabbage045@DerMenschensohn@MohamedAharrou This totally just depends on what theory of time you hold, however, I don't think even the B theory get's you in a position of coherency of an infinite past.
If time were something like a static block (all moments equally real), that’s a different story.
@AlCabbage045@DerMenschensohn@MohamedAharrou Zeno is irrelevant here because:
it deals with dividing a finite interval
not forming an actually infinite sequence through time
Your argument treats time like a pre-existing infinite path, but time as we intuitively see it is formed by successive addition
@AlCabbage045@DerMenschensohn@MohamedAharrou If you aren't shortening the length, your words, there would be an infinite path between before and present, and the present is here, so either, an infinite path has been crossed, or, there is no infinite past.