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Single Idea 14756
[filed under theme 27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / h. Presentism
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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 Ref
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'?
The
30 ideas
with the same theme
[only the present moment exists]:
20819
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The past and the future subsist, but only the present exists
[Chrysippus, by Plutarch]
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5979
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If the past is no longer, and the future is not yet, how can they exist?
[Augustine]
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8167
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If Presentism is correct, we cannot even say that the present changes
[Dummett]
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15188
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If things don't persist through time, then change makes no sense
[Le Poidevin]
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14409
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I am a presentist, and all language and common sense supports my view
[Bigelow]
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14724
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Presentists must deny truths about multiple times
[Sider]
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14756
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For Presentists there must always be a temporal vantage point for any description
[Sider]
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4473
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'Presentism' is the view that only the present moment exists
[Moreland]
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14026
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Presentists can talk of 'times', with no more commitment than modalists have to possible worlds
[Crisp,TM]
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14406
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Presentists say that things have existed and will exist, not that they are instantaneous
[Merricks]
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14407
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Presentist should deny there is a present time, and just say that things 'exist'
[Merricks]
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14411
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Maybe only presentism allows change, by now having a property, and then lacking it
[Merricks]
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14007
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How can presentists talk of 'earlier than', and distinguish past from future?
[Bourne]
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14011
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Presentism seems to deny causation, because the cause and the effect can never coexist
[Bourne]
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14017
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Since presentists treat the presentness of events as basic, simultaneity should be define by that means
[Bourne]
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14938
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A fixed foliation theory of quantum gravity could make presentism possible
[Ladyman/Ross]
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13990
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Presentism is the view that only present objects exist
[Markosian]
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13992
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Presentism says if objects don't exist now, we can't have attitudes to them or relations with them
[Markosian]
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13994
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Presentism seems to entail that we cannot talk about other times
[Markosian]
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13995
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Serious Presentism says things must exist to have relations and properties; Unrestricted version denies this
[Markosian]
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13996
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Maybe Presentists can refer to the haecceity of a thing, after the thing itself disappears
[Markosian]
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13997
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Maybe Presentists can paraphrase singular propositions about the past
[Markosian]
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13993
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Special Relativity denies the absolute present which Presentism needs
[Markosian]
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22974
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Presentists lack the materials for a realist view of change
[Price,H]
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19041
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Presentists explain cross-temporal relations using surrogate descriptions
[Vetter]
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22994
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Erzatz Presentism allows the existence of other times, with only the present 'actualised'
[Baron/Miller]
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22998
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How do presentists explain relations between things existing at different times?
[Baron/Miller]
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23017
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Presentism needs endurantism, because other theories imply most of the object doesn't exist
[Baron/Miller]
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23023
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How can presentists move to the next future moment, if that doesn't exist?
[Baron/Miller]
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22610
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It is difficult to handle presentism in first-order logic
[Ingthorsson]
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