Everyday philosophy, Extraordinary life | Timothy Williamson
Philosophy For Our Times
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How Do We Know if Time Is Something That Passes
How do we know to distinguish though? Because, for example, one of the examples you give in your book is this old argument by mc. Tugger about the illusion off the passage of time. Soou i think the esworth jury is still out with in physics about that question but, the point is a more general one. And so there isn't any kind of magical rule tat tat tells us where something is too ridiculous to be true. But what's going on is that we have have these common sense ways of thinking about time,. which they're not going to turn out to be just utterly mistaken, have no relation to reality at all.
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