Concept map by Jordan Bales

Space

jordanbales23 — 2024-03-05 12:47:51 UTC

A 3-Dimensional reality where events occur.

Time

jordanbales23 — 2024-03-05 12:49:00 UTC

A continued sequence of existence and events that is largely irreversible

Plato's Cave

jordanbales23 — 2024-03-05 12:51:17 UTC

Plato came up with an allegory in order to challenge how "real" our reality is.

Relationism

jordanbales23 — 2024-03-05 12:54:14 UTC

The view that space is purely a mathematical way of explaining how objects interact with each other, rather than space existing independently from physical things.

Substantivalism

jordanbales23 — 2024-03-05 12:55:58 UTC

The view that space exists independently and in addition to the objects within it.

Determinism

jordanbales23 — 2024-03-05 12:56:35 UTC

The view that all events that occur are inevitable and part of a causal chain.

Indeterminism

jordanbales23 — 2024-03-05 12:58:26 UTC

The view that all events are purely under our control and that things happen based on our choices, as well as the view that the future has many possibilities.

Presentism

jordanbales23 — 2024-03-05 13:00:20 UTC

The view that only things and events in the present exist. Nothing in the future exists yet, and what is now the past no longer exists.

Eternalism

jordanbales23 — 2024-03-05 13:01:16 UTC

Past, present, and future are all equally real

Notice a strange grouping between two halves of the views...

jordanbales23 — 2024-03-05 13:16:47 UTC

All of the views in the two groups seem to share a similar sense of reality in their ideas. For example, the top group shares this if-I-can't-see-it-then-it-doesn't-exist mantra. Oppositely, the bottom group shares the similar general view that everything has it's place in the universe.