C013Time and becoming
McTaggart’s argument does not depend on time being continuous. A finite or countably ordered sequence can still be described through earlier/later relations, and its members can still be assigned past, present and future positions. The comparison develops this distinction through a worked example and explains its implications for SMM/DTT’s nested generation, completed records and account of the observable world.
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C014Time and becoming
Discrete presentism could treat only the current completed stage as actual. A discrete growing block could retain all completed stages while adding a new one. The comparison develops this distinction through a worked example and explains its implications for SMM/DTT’s nested generation, completed records and account of the observable world.
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C015Time and becoming
A block universe can be discrete or continuous. A lattice of events and a smooth manifold are different mathematical structures, but either can be treated as a complete history. The comparison develops this distinction through a worked example and explains its implications for SMM/DTT’s nested generation, completed records and account of the observable world.
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C016Time and becoming
Thermal flow is mathematically continuous in its usual modular formulation, whereas a DTT model may begin with discrete completions. A relation between them requires a limit or an embedding, not a verbal identification. The comparison develops this distinction through a worked example and explains its implications for SMM/DTT’s nested generation, completed records and account of the observable world.
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C017Time and becoming
The two-state formalism can be applied to intermediate measurements at a sequence of times, but the existence of those measurement times does not make physical time fundamentally discrete. The comparison develops this distinction through a worked example and explains its implications for SMM/DTT’s nested generation, completed records and account of the observable world.
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C018Time and becoming
Whitehead’s actual occasions are conceptually atomic in their achieved actuality, but their internal becoming should not be equated without argument with uniform physical ticks. The comparison develops this distinction through a worked example and explains its implications for SMM/DTT’s nested generation, completed records and account of the observable world.
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