Brentano and the Ideality of Time
Revista de Filosofia Moderna e Contemporânea August 31, 2021 Denis Seron
How is it possible to have present memory experiences of things that, being past, are no longer presently experienced? A possible answer to this long-standing philosophical question is what I call the “ideality of time view,” namely the view that temporal succession is unreal. In this paper I outline the basic idea behind Brentano’s version of the ideality of time view. Additionally, I contrast...