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3 Ways to Harmonize an A-theory with Special Relativity

1/17/2012

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1) Distinguish metaphysical time from physical (clock) time and maintain that the latter is a bare abstraction from metaphysical time, which has the feature of temporal becoming, and that this abstraction is useful for scientific purposes, even if B-theorteic in nature, 2) relativize temporal becoming to reference frames, just as is done with simultaneity, 3) select a privileged reference frame to define the time in which objective becoming occurs, most plausibly the cosmic time, which serves as the time parameter for hypersurfaces of homogeneity in space-time in the GTR. 
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