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eternalism : is a view in the philosophy of time according to which the past, present and future are all equally real. To clearly distinguish it from presentism, the view carries an ontological committment to more than just the present instant or moment.
Often eternalism is associated with an anti-realism about 'tense', which is to say that often an eteranlist will deny that temporal terms like 'past', 'present' and 'future' denote parts of reality to which they directly correspond. At best, such terms are used as a convenient short-hand for time earlier, later or simulataneous with the time at which a speaker uses a such a temporal term in an utterance of a sentence.
The conjunction of anti-realism about tense plus eternalism plus the assumption that reality contains no incoherencies is often called the 'b-series' view of time.
Eternalism in relation to Buddhism is the doctrine of eternal things or eternal life. The idea of the eternal soul is a perfect example of this. Buddhism however rejects eternalism along with nihilism. The rejection is based on the notion that when an object is analysed into elements, no eternal parts or eternal existence can be found.
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