Abstract
When the opponents in a philosophicaldebate believe that the other side is, not justfalse, but absurd, it is time to wonder wether the two sides of the debate are rightlycharacterized. This, I believe, is the situation that obtains in the debate between the A- and B-theories of time. Both A- and B-theorists commonly accept the claim that A-time constains transition and that B-time does not. A-theorists reject the B-theory because they believe that time without transition is an absurdity, and B-theorists reject A-theory because they believe that the transition envisaged by A-theory is incoherent. What we must do, however, is inquire whether the dichotomy is rightly set up. It seems to me that it is not. B-time, too, must contain transition of some sort or it would not be time. The proper dichotomy to debate is not transition versus no transition, but A-transition versus B-transition
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