ABSTRACT
This chapter applies the general labels ‘relationism’ and ‘substantivalism’ to the theories of the passage of time. The main aim of this chapter, which is also the main positive argument of this book, is to develop an account of passage that is realist not in the substantial but in the relational sense. This is thus the longest chapter of the book and the only one to apply subheadings apart from the Introduction. Relationism takes the plural nature of time very seriously, but in contrast to antirealist or idealist formulations, it is a form of realism. To contextualize the argument properly, classical antirealist and idealist arguments of passage are introduced in the beginning. Then the substantivalist thesis is laid out. After this the relational argument is proposed.
