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Is there a "flow" of time or temporal "becoming"?

Adolf Grünbaum

pp. 314-329

Abstract

It is clear that the anisotropy of time resulting from the existence of irreversible processes consists in the mere structural differences between the two opposite senses of time but provides no basis at all for singling out one of the two opposite senses as "the direction" of time. Hence the assertion that irreversible processes render time anisotropic is not at all equivalent to such statements as "time flows one way."

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Grünbaum Adolf (1973) Philosophical problems of space and time. Dordrecht, Springer.

Pages: 314-329

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-010-2622-2_10

Full citation:

Grünbaum Adolf (1973) Is there a "flow" of time or temporal "becoming"?, In: Philosophical problems of space and time, Dordrecht, Springer, 314–329.