temporalism

English

Etymology

From temporal +‎ -ism.

Noun

temporalism (countable and uncountable, plural temporalisms)

1. (philosophy) The position that the truth value of a proposition can vary across time.
   • 2015 January 8, Leo Carton Mollica, “Explanation and nowness: an objection to the A-Theory”, in Philosophical Studies, →DOI:

     As stated, this argument assumes a form of propositional temporalism: it assumes that the proposition expressed by my sentence for A-THEORY* has different truth values relative to different times.

2. The tendency of ecclesiastical authority to interfere in the political power of a nation.

Antonyms

• eternalism

Related terms

• temporalist

Anagrams

• almost prime