C019Time and becoming
McTaggart challenges whether change can be fundamental without a coherent account of tense. DTT responds most interestingly by making time the constitution of records rather than an independently moving container. 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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C020Time and becoming
Presentism and growing-block theories primarily specify the temporal extent of reality. DTT’s generative programme instead asks how determinate states are produced. 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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C021Time and becoming
A generative explanation and a block representation can answer different questions about the same world. A block states which events and relations occur; a constructive theory explains how those relations follow from a smaller set of source rules. 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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C022Time and becoming
Thermal time makes temporal flow dependent on the physical state, whereas SMM/DTT seeks a source process that also produces the states and spatial relations themselves. 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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C023Time and becoming
The two-state formalism describes quantum events using boundary conditions on both sides of an intermediate measurement. DTT’s generative process is a proposed account of how events and records arise. 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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C024Time and becoming
Whitehead and DTT both resist treating becoming as a superficial change of properties attached to fully formed static things. For Whitehead, occasions achieve definite actuality through their process; for DTT, inner generation leads to completed observable relations. 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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C410Connections across theories
Quantum theory admits operational frameworks in which a fixed global order of laboratory operations is not assumed. This challenges simple pictures of time as one universal sequence. SMM/DTT can respond by distinguishing nested generative dependency from observable causal order, while specifying whether its completion rules actually reproduce or restrict such quantum processes.
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