The story of the tablecloth: deriving “before” from atemporal notions

IF 1.1 1区哲学 0 PHILOSOPHY

PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES Pub Date : 2025-05-26 DOI:10.1007/s11098-025-02305-z

Daniel Saudek

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Abstract

This article develops a new account of the relation “before” between events. It does so by taking the set of all states of an object, irrespective of any presupposed order, and then finding the order between events by exploiting a characteristic asymmetry which appears on this set, called the “record asymmetry”. It is shown that the record asymmetry 1. implies a weak temporal order (“before or simultaneous with”), and 2. is necessary for measuring a strong temporal order (“before”). I then propose a condition necessary and sufficient for a strong temporal order in terms of the set of states of a single object. The upshot is that temporal ordering is not ontologically primitive, but reducible to the record asymmetry. Also, it is a local phenomenon which requires no global temporal structure of spacetime.

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桌布的故事：从世俗的概念推导出“以前”

本文对事件之间的“之前”关系提出了一种新的解释。它是这样做的：取一个物体的所有状态的集合，不考虑任何预设的顺序，然后通过利用这个集合中出现的特征不对称（称为“记录不对称”）来找到事件之间的顺序。结果表明，记录的不对称性为1。暗示一个较弱的时间顺序（“之前或同时”）；是测量强时间顺序（“之前”）所必需的。然后，我提出了一个必要和充分的条件，以一个单一对象的状态集来表示强时间秩序。其结果是，时间排序不是本体论上的原始，而是可还原为记录不对称。同时，它是一种局部现象，不需要时空的全局时间结构。

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PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES PHILOSOPHY-

CiteScore

2.60

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7.70%

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127

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