Cartesian Temporal Atomism: A New Defence, A New RefutationFootnote¹

¹My title is intended to evoke Richard Arthur's influential article: ‘Continuous Creation, Continuous Time: A Refutation of the Alleged Discontinuity of Cartesian Time’ (Arthur, Citation1988).

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