TY - JOUR
AU - Craig, William Lane
AB -  I. A fundamental aspect of our experience as temporal beings consists in our peculiar attitudes toward past and future events respectively. With respect to past events, we look back on them with nostalgia if we remember them as pleasant, or with relief at their being over if we recall them as unpleasant. Similarly, we dread future events that we expect to be unpleasant, but anticipate events t h a t we t h i n k will be pleasant. With his characteristic charm, A. N. Prior provided a classic example concerning the relief we feel with respect to some past event: One says, e.g. “Thank goodness that’s over!*, and not only is this, when said, quite clear without any date appended, but it says something which is impossible t h a t any use of a tenseless copula with a date should convey. It certainly doesn’t mean the same as, e.g. “Thank goodness the date of the conclusion of that thing is Friday, June 15, 1954,” even if it be said then. (Nor, for t h a t matter, does i t mean ”Thank goodness the conclusion of that thing is contemporaneous with this utterance”. W h y 
TI - Tensed Time and Our Differential Experience of the Past and Future
JF - The Southern Journal of Philosophy
DO - 10.1111/j.2041-6962.1999.tb00880.x
DA - 1999-12-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/tensed-time-and-our-differential-experience-of-the-past-and-future-z8ihwBh2jg
SP - 515
VL - 37
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -