Quentin Smith on Infinity and the past

@article{Eells1988QuentinSO,  title={Quentin Smith on Infinity and the past},  author={Ellery Eells},  journal={Philosophy of Science},  year={1988},  volume={55},  pages={453 - 455},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:170752843}}
In a recent commendable article, Quentin Smith (1987) exposes fatal flaws in several recent attempts to demonstrate that it is logically impossible for the past to be infinite. However, his analysis of one of these flawed arguments--involving an interesting version of Russell's "Tristram Shandy paradox"--is off the mark, as I show in this paper. 
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