id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_d6cor2qxgjdenaogeczqiyhc5y Christian Loew Fundamentality and Time's Arrow 2018 32 .pdf application/pdf 8705 616 60 This intrinsic direction of time is meant to help explain the thermodynamic asymmetry. direction of time that draws from recent work on grounding and metaphysical fundamentality.2 I argue that positing a direction of time in this sense helps explain the thermodynamic asymmetry because it The intrinsic direction of time, according to Maudlin, helps explain the thermodynamic the direction of time to understand how it underwrites that earlier states produce and, thus, explain later explained in virtue of just the initial state of the world and the fundamental physical laws.6 Maudlin's bias question, we have an account of why the past hypothesis applies to the state in time to which it in the past hypothesis applies to the initial state in time. latter fact is enough to explain why the past hypothesis, given that it applies only to one state in time, restrictions on this initial state, such as the past hypothesis, and the fundamental dynamical laws. ./cache/work_d6cor2qxgjdenaogeczqiyhc5y.pdf ./txt/work_d6cor2qxgjdenaogeczqiyhc5y.txt