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    Each time t, when present, is ET-simultaneous with the li... — Carmelics
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    Supports→While times pass in time, they do not pass relative to eternity.

    Each time t, when present, is ET-simultaneous with the life of an eternal being.

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    Of course, one wants to know how to make sense of the idea that passage is real only in time. Stump and Kretzmann (1981) gave a take on this while retracting Kretzmann's original commitment to (1)–(4). Suppose presentism. On the Stump-Kretzmann picture, each time t, when present, is “ET-simultaneous” with the life of an eternal being. So that life is ET-simultaneous with t. So all times, precisely in their presentness, are just ET-simultaneous with an eternal life. But in an eternal life, nothing passes. If it did, that life would have earlier and later parts: it would be temporal, not ete...

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