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The causal theory of time, which had occupied an important place in the thought of Leibniz and of Kant, again became a subject of central philosophic interest during the current century after its detailed elaboration and logical refinement at the hands of G. Lechalas,¹ H. Reichenbach,² K. Lewin,³ R. Carnap,⁴ and H. Mehlberg.⁵ Specifically, it earned its new prominence in recent decades by its role in the magisterial and beautiful constructions of the relativistic topology of both time and space by Reichenbach⁶ and Carnap.⁷ More recently, I used the causal theory of time to show semantically that, with respect to the relation "later than" the events of physics can meaningfully possess the seemingly counter-intuitive denseness property of the linear Cantorean continuum. And, in this way, I was able to supply the semantical nervus probandi which had been lacking in Russell's mathematical refutation of Zeno's paradoxes of motion.⁸

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-010-2622-2_7

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