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Tense and existence

Max Urchs

pp. 193-200

Abstract

The following deliberations concern a causally based notion of existence. They are to a large extend stimulated by Jan Faye's writings on the one hand — mostly his monograph The reality of the future. An essay on time, causation and backward causation ([1]) — and, on the other hand, influenced by Tadeusz Kotarbińsk's paper "The Question of the Existence of the Future"([3]). I shall deliberately omit physics, e.g. the question of how causality brings about directed temporal structures.

Publication details

Published in:

Faye Jan, Scheffler Uwe, Urchs Max (1997) Perspectives on time. Dordrecht, Springer.

Pages: 193-200

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-015-8875-1_8

Full citation:

Urchs Max (1997) „Tense and existence“, In: J. Faye, U. Scheffler & M. Urchs (eds.), Perspectives on time, Dordrecht, Springer, 193–200.