B-Theory Strengths And Weaknesses

There are two packages of time theories that attempt to explain, in a nutshell, what exists –that is, the past, present, or future? Here, we consider one of the two packages: the B-package. It has a few notable strengths and weaknesses. The strengths of this package is that it is implied by an important physics theory: the special theory of relativity and that it is able to account for past- and future-tensed sentences. A weakness of this package is that it is unable to account for the ordinary way we come to understand the change that happens over time. Nonetheless, the B-package has its own replies to its weaknesses. In what is to follow, all of the mentioned points will be considered. There are two packages of theories that provide different views on how time is considered as a temporal …show more content…
The B-theory accommodates change because objects of the universe have different features at different locations in the four-dimensional block that is the universe . B-theorists believe that objects do change through its ability to possess a certain quality at this specific time and then lacking the same quality at a later time . An example can easily illustrate this point. Consider the ripening of a tomato: when a tomato ripens, in this sense, it does not become ripe; it is simply unripe at a certain time and then ripe at a later time . This is how the B-theorists account for change in objects and events over time. Furthermore, we know from our experiences that there is an objective passage of time but the B-theory misses this idea completely . The B-theorists, in response, will argue that the kind of change the B-theory has to offer is the kind of change that genuinely exists . In other words, the B-theorists are asserting that the sort of change in events and objects over the passage of time that we ordinarily experience is an