This essay aims to review and clarify an emerging consensus among philosophers of time: that belief in the passage of time is not a matter of illusion but rather the result of a variety of cognitive error. I argue that this error is best described in terms of psychological projection, properly understood. A close analysis of varieties of projection reveals how well this phenomenon accounts for belief in dynamic temporal passage and the objective becoming of events. A projectivist account of belief in the passage of time is, in actuality, already predominant in contemporary philosophy of time; but the language of illusion still used by many theorists is hampering recognition of the nature of the solution as well as the recent progress towards consensus.

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时间的流逝不是幻觉：而是一种投射

本文旨在回顾和澄清时间哲学家之间正在形成的共识：对时间流逝的信念不是幻觉，而是各种认知错误的结果。我认为这个错误最好用心理投射来描述，并得到正确理解。对各种投射的仔细分析揭示了这种现象如何很好地解释了动态时间流逝和事件客观发生的信念。事实上，对时间流逝的信念的投射主义解释在当代时间哲学中已经占主导地位。但许多理论家仍然使用幻想语言，阻碍了对解决方案本质的认识以及最近在达成共识方面取得的进展。