ABSTRACT
The similarities between space and time are striking. For one thing, spatial relations and temporal relations are external relations and all known external relations are—or at least in some way involve—spatial or temporal relations: space and time seem to be the two aspects of the World that make external relations possible. If Bertrand Russell’s theory of time is satisfactory, then, although time may be asymmetrical with respect to the past and the future, there is no such property of moments of time as “being the present moment” or “nowness” and, therefore, no growing era called the past and no shrinking era called the future. “Temporal motion” is not the only constituent of our everyday conception of time whose reality has been denied by philosophers. According to Russell’s proposal, all temporal facts can be expressed using the self-referential phrases and the relational terms ‘before’, ‘after’, and ‘simultaneous’.
