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An Innocuous Paradox

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 June 2010

André Gombay
André Gombay
Affiliation:
McGill University, and Makerere University College
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Extract

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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Discussions/Notes
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Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review / Revue canadienne de philosophie , Volume 6 , Issue 2 , September 1967 , pp. 231 - 235
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Philosophical Association 1967

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References

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