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    It is not the case that B-occurring entails A-occurring.

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    Reasons For

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    • 1.A-series temporal predicates like 'now' are mind-dependent indexicals, not objective features of reality (McTaggart, Russell).
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    • 2.B-series locations are tenseless relational facts that obtain independently of any observer's present moment.
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    • 3.A fact about B-location cannot entail a mind-dependent A-determination without smuggling in a privileged observer.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.In eternalist B-theory, all temporal locations are equally real and none is ontologically privileged as 'now' (Price, Sider).
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    • 2.If no B-location is intrinsically 'now,' then occupying a B-location does not entail occupying the A-position of presentness.
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    Reasons Against

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    • If something occurs at a temporal B-location t that is now, it occurs now.
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