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An Innocuous Paradox

  • André Gombay (a1)
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McCall's argument has two stages. In the first (which I shall call ‘Stage One’), the hypothesis that someone has both perfect memory and perfect foreknowledge is shown to generate an infinite regress, and this is taken to establish the absurdity of that hypothesis; in the second (‘Stage Two’), this absurdity is made the basis of a proof that time is asymmetrical.

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1 McCall's italics. The omitted passages have to do with a polemic of no account to this paper.

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Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review / Revue canadienne de philosophie
  • ISSN: 0012-2173
  • EISSN: 1759-0949
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