Time and darknessRecall our recent post on existence and time. In it we discussed the existence of p

Time and darknessRecall our recent post on existence and time. In it we discussed the existence of past, present, and future objects, running through whether each really exist. An adherent to presentism, for example, believes that only present objects exist.But ponder this challenge to the presentist from Hermann Lotze (b. 1817; pictured), which is as poetic as it is compelling:‘The history of the world, is it really reduced to the infinitely thin, forever changing, strip of light which forms the present, wavering between a darkness of the Past, which is done and no longer anything at all, and a darkness of the future, which is also nothing?’ (Lotze’s System of Philosophy Part II, Metaphysic vol. I)And suddenly the present feels dark, too. -- source link

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