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The following deliberations concern a causally based notion of existence. They are to a large extend stimulated by Jan Faye’s writings on the one hand — mostly his monograph The reality of the future. An essay on time, causation and backward causation ([1]) — and, on the other hand, influenced by Tadeusz Kotarbińsk’s paper “The Question of the Existence of the Future”([3]). I shall deliberately omit physics, e.g. the question of how causality brings about directed temporal structures.
To Gerhard Bauer on the occasion of his 70th birthday
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Urchs, M. (1997). Tense and Existence. In: Faye, J., Scheffler, U., Urchs, M. (eds) Perspectives on Time. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 189. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8875-1_8
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