First Test Study Guide

Question 1

JJC Smart attacks the view that time passes.

Answer 1

TRUE

Question 2

AN Prior defends the view that time passes.

Answer 2

TRUE

Question 3

Richard Taylor defends fatalism.

Answer 3

TRUE

Question 4

Katherine Hawley defends the presentist response to problem of change.

Answer 4

IDK

Question 5

David Lewis defends the view that time travel is possible.

Answer 5

TRUE

Question 6

The A-Theory:

Answer 6

There are some A-facts that are irreducible to B-facts.

Question 7

The B-Theory:

Answer 7

All A-facts are reducible to B-facts.

Question 8

Perdurantism:

Answer 8

Objects persist through time by having different temporal parts at different times.

Question 9

Endurantism:

Answer 9

Objects do not persist through time by having different temporal parts at different times.

Question 10

x is a temporal part of y at t =df:

Answer 10

(i) x is a part of y during t
(ii) x overlaps everything that’s a part of y during t
(iii) x exists only during t

Question 11

Eternalism:

Answer 11

The part, present, and future all exist and are all equally real.

Question 12

The Growing Block Theory:

Answer 12

The past and present times exist and are real, but the future does not exist and is not real.

Question 13

Presentism:

Answer 13

The present time exists and is real, but the past and future times do not exist and are not real.

Question 14

Bivalence:

Answer 14

Every statement is either TRUE or FALSE.

Question 15

Fatalism:

Answer 15

Whatever happens is unavoidable.

Question 16

Personal Time:

Answer 16

An assignment of coordinates that matches the subjective relations between events.

Question 17

External Time:

Answer 17

An assignment of coordinates that matches the objective temporal relations between events.

Question 18

Someone is a time traveler only if, and because:

Answer 18

There is a discrepancy between external time and his or her personal time.