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If the future doesn't exist until it happens, then does it exist? Wouldn't that make it the present and not the future?
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October 16, 2005

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Peter Lipton
October 16, 2005 (changed October 16, 2005) Permalink

Some philosophers think that time is a lot like space: just as all places are equally real even though I am only in one place, so all times are equally real even though I am only in one time. On this view, the fact that the future exists now no more makes it present than the existence of a place over-there makes that place exist here.

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