Full Idea
Quine's view is that time is 'space-like'. Past objects are as real as present ones; they're just temporally distant, just as spatially distant objects are just as real as the ones around here.
Gist of Idea
Quine holds time to be 'space-like': past objects are as real as spatially remote ones
Source
report of Willard Quine (Mr Strawson on Logical Theory [1953]) by Theodore Sider - Logic for Philosophy 7.3.1
Book Reference
Sider,Theodore: 'Logic for Philosophy' [OUP 2010], p.187
A Reaction
Something is a wrong with a view that says that a long-dead person is just as real as one currently living. Death is rather more than travelling to a distant place. Arthur Prior responded to Quine by saying 'tense operators' are inescapable.