Linear time is a mental construct, real time is always current. The past as well as the future are artifacts of the present.
The idea of causality was reduced to facts against Facts for the World of individualized things which define themselves according to determinations. Negation made things spatial. Beyond the mere individuality there is counter-factual determination for the negative determination, here and there, worded event causes another event more to justify the relation by such definition than to explain how the law of nature deduced the event under observation for the prediction of more to discover. Must we take it for granted that the universe existed according to one set of Laws of Nature in spite of predicting counter factually? If we fail to grant these laws we can discover time which was totally more than real for the next instant of the expected Future. Too much.