C020Time and becoming
Presentism and growing-block theories primarily specify the temporal extent of reality. DTT’s generative programme instead asks how determinate states are produced. 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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C021Time and becoming
A generative explanation and a block representation can answer different questions about the same world. A block states which events and relations occur; a constructive theory explains how those relations follow from a smaller set of source rules. 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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C048Time and becoming
Whitehead’s many occasions and their relations provide a philosophical setting in which becoming need not be pictured as one universal present moving across all space. 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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C056Time and becoming
DTT’s becoming world is close in spirit to theories that distinguish a real present from an unreal future, but presentism and the growing block diverge over completed history. 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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C057Time and becoming
An eternalist can explain why every observer experiences a local now by locating the observer’s state within a complete history. DTT asks whether that explanation omits the production of the state itself. 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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C058Time and becoming
Thermal time provides a state-dependent flow, but a flow does not by itself select a privileged present. Every value of its parameter can label an event without one value being ontologically special. 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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C059Time and becoming
The two-state formalism describes an intermediate quantum situation in relation to both boundaries, whereas DTT’s becoming concerns how an event acquires 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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C060Time and becoming
Whitehead’s satisfaction of an occasion and DTT’s outer completion both give achieved actuality a role in subsequent becoming. This is a deep conceptual affinity: the present is not merely a point sliding along an otherwise complete line, but an achievement with inherited content and future relevance. A worked example clarifies the distinction and its implications for SMM/DTT’s account of generation and completed observation.
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