McTaggart's B-series, which orders events by permanent earlier-than/later-than relations, constitutes a coherent and empirically adequate conception of time without requiring passage.
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earlier-than/later-than relations(describes how the B-series organizes time)
The permanent, unchanging relationships between events based on their order—like how January is always earlier than December, no matter what year you're thinking about.
empirically adequate(philosophy of science)
A model or theory that correctly predicts what we actually observe in experiments, even if it might not describe what's 'really' happening underneath.
passage (of time)(what McTaggart's B-series supposedly does NOT require)
The sense that time flows or moves forward, with the present moment constantly shifting from past toward future—the feeling that 'now' is always moving.