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(2001) The importance of time, Dordrecht, Springer.
Many philosophers think that the Special Theory of Relativity is compatible with the tensed or A-theory of time ("mind-independent temporal becoming"). They have argued that the future can be indeterminate or future relative to a reference frame. However, "relative futurity" is not a tensed or A-determination, but a relation that obtains in a B-series in a universe in which the tenseless theory of time (temporal features consist only of earlier than, later than and simultaneity) is true. I shall argue this point in this paper.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-3362-5_12
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Smith, Q. (2001)., The incompatibility of STR and the tensed theory of time, in L. N. Oaklander (ed.), The importance of time, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 153-156.
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