The status of the past. Oakeley, H. D. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 32(1):227–250, 1932. ![The status of the past [link]](https://bibbase.org/img/filetypes/link.svg "link")
Paper doi abstract bibtex [first paragraph] THE problem which I propose to consider is not whether the distinctions past, present, future, characterize the form of time in such a way that whatever may be true concerning the reality of one of these characteristics must be equally true of the others, but the more particular question of the kind of existence which belongs to the content of the past, or its constituents as events. The problem may be initially stated by reference to Dr. Broad's exposition of his view on this question in Scientific Thought. This is, as I understand it, a brilliant rationalization of a view widely, if obscurely, held by the ordinary man, relieving the latter of its inconsistencies. Dr. Broad lays bare the difficulties involved in a treatment of the changes of events, from future through present to past, by a method analogous to that of explanation of the changes in things. The event cannot be divided up into sections having severally futurity, presentness, pastness, since it is the whole event which " was future, became present, and is now past."* The change of events is in fact a change of time, and " we cannot reduce a change of time to changes in time, since time would then need another time to change in, and so on to infinity." He proceeds, therefore, to •deal with the problem by consideration of the relational nature of the predicates past, present and future, and argues that " When an event ceases to be present and becomes past, this
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doi = {10.1093/aristotelian/32.1.227},
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