The Difference Between A-Theory And B-Theory

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Question 3 In this essay I will lay out the difference between the A-theory and the B-theory of time. After I layout both theories I will focus on the critique of B-theory that its view is too static a picture of the world, on where nothing really happens or changes but rather remains. I will show how this critique holds up by using A-theory and I will write a plausible response from a B-theorist. Finally, I will state whether or not the belief, that B-theory presents a too static picture of the world, is a good reason to outright reject the B-theory of time. The best ways to press the challenge to the B-theory is by showing how people change with the passage of time. An A-theorist would argue that it is clear that time passes and there is a clear flow of time. As A-theorists believe that time flows and it is not a …show more content…

B-theory proves itself to a greater extent than A-theory to hold and not be self-contradictory. It presents that many people use the incorrect tenses when speaking in daily life and those tense can be reworked into the B properties so it is an illusion that B-theory doesn’t fit into daily life because they view the world as static while the world is anything but static. However if you look at the tenses it can be reframed and fit perfectly into the B-theory. Another reason that B-theory still holds is that there is no measurable passage of time. We can quantify light at the rate is moves but not time there is no benchmark to rate its passage. We can create things like hours or minutes but those are human constructs and how we perceive time as moving which do not hold. Since there is no proof that time passes and the argument of B-theory being too static is flawed I believe that B-theory still holds as it has a strong case that holds

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