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    Challenges→In God's eternal life, each time in its presentness remains and nothing ever ceases to be ET-simultaneous with God's life.

    Temporal passage is an objective feature of reality not reducible to relations between events and an observer, as argued by presentists and growing-block theorists like Broad and Tooley.

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    Key Terms

    C.D. Broad(as one of the philosophers cited as having investigated these phenomena)
    A British philosopher (1887-1971) who wrote extensively about philosophy of mind and was open to examining paranormal claims seriously.
    Growing-block theory(another major theory about the nature of time)
    A philosophical view that the past and present are both real, but the future doesn't exist yet—reality keeps 'growing' as new moments become real.
    Michael Tooley(a key philosopher cited as supporting this theory)
    A contemporary philosopher known for defending the growing-block theory of time and arguing that temporal passage is real and objective.
    Reducible to(as used in philosophy generally)
    Able to be broken down into or explained using simpler parts; when something complicated can be shown to just be made of something simpler.

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    Relations between events(what temporal passage might be reduced to in some theories)
    The ways events connect to each other, like how one event happens before or after another event.
    objective feature of reality(as used in metaphysics)
    Something that exists and is true about the world independent of what any person thinks or feels about it.
    presentism(Philosophy of time)
    The view that, necessarily, it is always true that only present objects exist; no objects exist in time without being present
    temporal passage(what Prior's logic tries to explain)
    The idea that time actually flows or moves forward—that moments genuinely become present and then become past.

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