Single Idea 14406

[catalogued under 27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / h. Presentism]

Full Idea

Presentists deny that everything is instantaneous; they think that many objects not only exist, but also have existed and will exist.

Gist of Idea

Presentists say that things have existed and will exist, not that they are instantaneous

Source

Trenton Merricks (Truth and Ontology [2007], 6.I)

Book Reference

Merricks,Trenton: 'Truth and Ontology' [OUP 2007], p.124


A Reaction

The second half is because presentists are committed to the truth of tensed existence claims (despite a lack of any theory as to how they work). Does anyone hold a theory of Instantaneousism?