Full Idea
The Presentist acknowledges that no atemporal description of the case can be given; a vantage point must be chosen for any description.
Gist of Idea
For Presentists there must always be a temporal vantage point for any description
Source
Theodore Sider (Four Dimensionalism [2001], 5.5)
Book Reference
Sider,Theodore: 'Four Dimensionalism' [OUP 2003], p.172
A Reaction
This is because Presentists are committed to tense, which have to be either explicit or implicit in any sentence. But what of famously 'timeless' truths such as '2 and 2 are 4'?