Keeping the past in mind. Casey, E. S. Review of Metaphysics, 37(1):77–95, 1983.
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[first paragraph] Keeping the past in mind": where else is it going to be kept. We could perhaps try to keep it in the past itself; but then we'd have the past containing itself, swallowing its own tail. An event would die out the moment it was born: it would have no continuing protentional halo-fulfilled or unfulfilled-nor would it be rememberable. Yet an event shorne of all these attributes would no longer be an event at all. To keep a past event entirely past, with no possible repurcussions in the present, would be to deprive it of its very eventfulness. "Remembrance is now," say George Steiner in After Babel; but this is so only because the pas now being re-enacted, re-lived.
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abstract = {[first paragraph] Keeping the past in mind": where else is it going to be kept. We could perhaps try to keep it in the past itself; but then we'd have the past containing itself, swallowing its own tail. An event would die out the moment it was born: it would have no continuing protentional halo-fulfilled or unfulfilled-nor would it be rememberable. Yet an event shorne of all these attributes would no longer be an event at all. To keep a past event entirely past, with no possible repurcussions in the present, would be to deprive it of its very eventfulness. "Remembrance is now," say George Steiner in After Babel; but this is so only because the pas now being re-enacted, re-lived.},
author = {Casey, Edward S.},
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journal = {Review of Metaphysics},
number = {1},
pages = {77--95},
title = {{Keeping the past in mind}},
volume = {37},
year = {1983}
}

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