Gnoseology, Ontology, and the Arrow of Time
Mario Castagnino, Juan José Sanguineti
A physicist and a philosopher take on one of science's oddest puzzles: why time only runs forward. They contrast a gnoseological reading of the arrow of time, based on what we can know, with an ontological one based on how the world is.
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