Cross-Temporal Necessitation? A Platonist Reply to Leininger
Résumé
According to Leininger, presentists and growing blockers cannot explain why past and present regularities persist in the future. In order to do so, they would have to appeal to enforcers, such as causation, laws or dispositions. But in a world with no future, these enforcers are powerless and cannot guarantee future regularity. I disagree and argue that Leininger’s coordination problem can be met by distinguishing type- from token-level necessitation. Whereas token-level necessitation is cross-temporal and subject to Leininger’s coordination problem, type-level necessitation is atemporal and immune to the coordination problem. For this solution to work, though, type-level necessitation must be ontologically prior to token-level necessitation. This forces us to adopt a Platonist position according to which universals are transcendent, and not immanent.
Mots clés
time temporal becoming
absolute becoming presentism growing blockism coordination problem crosstemporal relations necessary connections causation laws of nature dispositions type/token Meinongianism Platonism universals
time
temporal becoming
absolute becoming
presentism
growing blockism
coordination problem
crosstemporal relations
necessary connections
causation
laws of nature
dispositions
type/token
Meinongianism
Platonism
universals
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