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- noun philosophy The view that
time resemblesspace and thuspast andfuture events are in some sensecoexistent .
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Examples
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Thus the two extremes of nihilism (nothing exists) and eternalism (something for self-grasping to hold) are easily avoided.
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Thus the two extremes of nihilism (nothing exists) and eternalism (something for self-grasping to hold) are easily avoided.
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Thus the two extremes of nihilism (nothing exists) and eternalism (something for self-grasping to hold) are easily avoided.
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Thus the two extremes of nihilism (nothing exists) and eternalism (something for self-grasping to hold) are easily avoided.
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Thus the two extremes of nihilism (nothing exists) and eternalism (something for self-grasping to hold) are easily avoided.
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Thus the two extremes of nihilism (nothing exists) and eternalism (something for self-grasping to hold) are easily avoided.
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Having cut off both extremes of nihilism and eternalism (the assertion of truly established existence), all things we encounter must be placed within the context of the mind that understands voidness.
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These may be appearances of any of the four extremes of eternalism, nihilism, both, or neither.
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He was taught theories of existence that ranged from eternalism
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If Buddha said the “me,” and so on are eternal, these people would fall to the position of eternalism.
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A philosophical approach to the ontological nature of time. It builds on the standard method of modeling time as a dimension in physics, to give time a similar ontology to that of space. This would mean that time is just another dimension, that future events are "already there", and that there is no objective flow of time. It is sometimes referred to as the "Block Time" or "Block Universe" theory due to its description of space-time as an unchanging four-dimensional "block", as opposed to the common-sense view of the world as a three-dimensional space modulated by the passage of time. (Wikipedia)
May 22, 2008