Concept

A series and B series

Overview

Philosophical terms regarding the temporal ordering of events

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Philosophers who discussed A series and B series

• Heraclitus
• J. M. E. McTaggart
• Arthur Prior

Related ideas

• B-theory of time
• Grammatical tense
• Heraclitus
• The Unreality of Time
• Truth value
• Future
• Metaphysics
• Ontology
• Linguistics
• Partially ordered set
• Parmenides
• Event (philosophy)
• J. M. E. McTaggart
• Reality
• Logic
• Philosophy of space and time
• Past
• Eternalism (philosophy of time)
• Ephemerality

Opposing perspectives

• Egocentric presentism
• Perspectival realism
• Why am I me?

Place in the tradition

Part of Analytic philosophy.

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