C001Time and becoming
Inner generation is not simply McTaggart’s A-series, and outer observation is not simply his B-series. The A/B distinction classifies ways of ordering or qualifying events; DTT distinguishes the constitution of an event from its completed accessibility. 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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C007Time and becoming
McTaggart’s earlier/later relation distinguishes orientation without supplying a physical explanation of an arrow. His tensed ordering concerns passage, whereas DTT’s dual-arrow language can distinguish the functional direction toward completion from the historical direction of retained records. 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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C013Time and becoming
McTaggart’s argument does not depend on time being continuous. A finite or countably ordered sequence can still be described through earlier/later relations, and its members can still be assigned past, present and future positions. 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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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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C025Time and becoming
McTaggart’s A/B distinction is not a distinction between real and imaginary components of a number. Tense and earlier/later relations are logical or ontological features of events; i and j specify multiplication laws. 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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C031Time and becoming
McTaggart’s A-series describes an event’s passage through tensed positions, while physical time reversal transforms a dynamical history. These are different operations. 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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C037Time and becoming
McTaggart’s earlier/later ordering does not assign numerical durations. A clock adds a metric relation among changes, together with a physical procedure for reading it. 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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C043Time and becoming
McTaggart’s B-series assumes an earlier/later ordering of events, while relativistic record networks can contain events with no invariant earlier/later relation because they are spacelike separated. 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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C049Time and becoming
A periodic sequence can be described using B-relations even though a display returns to the same value. McTaggart’s distinction helps reveal why recurrence of a property is not recurrence of the same temporal position. 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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C055Time and becoming
McTaggart’s challenge is sharpest when the present is treated as a property that moves from event to event. DTT can offer a different formulation: a present is the completion through which a previously unavailable relation becomes accessible. 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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