Unfortunately, he also included WP : OR in the ref : " " Eternalism, " block universe " and " block time " are understood as synonymous terms by philosophers ".
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In the view suggested by Eternalism, there is no passage of time; the ticking of a clock measures durations between events much as the marks on a measuring tape measure distances between places.
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Though they have often been conflated, eternalism is a theory of what time is like and what times exist, while perdurantism is a theory about persisting objects and their identity conditions over time.
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See TL; DR at Talk : Four-dimensionalism # Elephant in the room-possible redundancy and edit summaries at Eternalism ( philosophy of time ) and User talk : Hypnosifl # Edit Warring.
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::'It does not help, either, that there is a tendency to conflate eternalism the four-dimensional " block universe " view with causal determinism .'( source)
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This theory, also associated with the Yoga school, is the systematic unfolding of Udalaka Aruni s ( Chandogya Upanishad VI . i . 4-5 )'substantialism'and'eternalism '.
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A theory of free will is also informative for defining oneself; I shouldn't rant on about my notions of its roots in eternalism with causality violations, but it is tempting . :)
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:: : : :'It does not help, either, that there is a tendency to conflate eternalism the four-dimensional " block universe " view with causal determinism .'( source)
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:: " Many philosophers have taken the view, known as'the block universe theory'or'eternalism', that there are no significant ontological differences among present, past, and future . " ( source)
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::'It is commonly held that relativity favors the " block universe " view ( known also as " eternalism " ), according to which all events enjoy the same ontological status regardless of their location'( source)
