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I found a new word ..... Presentism Quote: Presentism (philosophy of time)
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In the philosophy of time, presentism is the belief that only the present exists and the future and the past are unreal.
Past and future "entities" are to be construed as logical constructions or fictions. The opposite of presentism is 'eternalism', which is the belief that things in the past and things yet to come exist eternally. One other view (that has not been held by very many philosophers) is sometimes called the 'growing block' theory of time, which is a theory that takes the past and present to exist but the future to be nonexistent. Presentism is compatible with Galilean relativity, in which time is independent of space but is probably incompatible with Lorentzian/Einsteinian relativity in conjunction with certain other philosophical theses which many find uncontroversial.
Presentism can also be used more loosely to refer to a narrow focus on the conditions of the moment.
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