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    Challenges→Time is unreal (does not exist).

    Inferring that time is unreal in the actual world from exotic features of non-actual spacetime models commits a modal fallacy: possibility of timeless worlds does not establish actuality of timelessness.

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    Non-actual(as used in metaphysics)
    Imaginary or hypothetical; something that doesn't exist in the real world but could be conceived of or mathematically described.
    Spacetime models(as used in physics and metaphysics)
    Mathematical descriptions of how space and time work together, often created by physicists or philosophers to explore different possibilities.
    Timelessness(first condition for Parmenidean Being)
    The quality of not existing in time, not changing, and not being affected by past or future—always the same.
    actuality(Contrasted with non-actuality; ceasing to be actual is equated with death and the loss of all distinctively human properties)
    The state of being actual (as opposed to merely possible), associated with consciousness, embodiment, and lived human properties

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    modal(in logic and metaphysics)
    Dealing with possibility and necessity—questions about what could be true, what must be true, and what's merely contingent (could go either way).
    modal fallacy(Epistemology and modal logic)
    An invalid inference resulting from illicit substitution of a non-rigid designator into a modal context, producing a false conclusion from true premises

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