The Past and the Future
by Dennis J. Darland
July 28, 2008
Last revised 18.12.2008 11.26 time
Copyright © 2008 Dennis J. Darland
Contentions
  1. Only the present exists.
  2. What we experience as past is the result of the effect the now non-existent but once existent past.
  3. We anticipate the now non-existent future.
  4. This mental relation (memory) of some portions of experience to others has survival value.
  5. Also any particular (present) portion of experience has a duration. That is, we experience in the present a continuous transition from the anticipated to the now to the immediate past. All three of these are really in the present.
  6. There is a continuous transition of the immediate past(still present in current duration) to the past proper(only present as effect of past on future).
  7. Anticipation of the future can also effect the present.(this also has survival value)
  8. Thus there are, in the present, portions of our experience that are experienced as causing other portions of our present experience.
  9. Propositions are relations sub-portions of our experience which (possibly) correspond (or fail to correspond) to other relations between other portions of our experience.

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