Full Idea
I am a presentist: nothing exists which is not present. Everyone believed this until the nineteenth century; it is writing into the grammar of natural languages; it is still assumed in everyday life, even by philosophers who deny it.
Gist of Idea
I am a presentist, and all language and common sense supports my view
Source
John Bigelow (Presentism and Properties [1996], p.36), quoted by Trenton Merricks - Truth and Ontology
Book Reference
Merricks,Trenton: 'Truth and Ontology' [OUP 2007], p.140
A Reaction
The most likely deniers of presentism seem to be physicists and cosmologists who have overdosed on Einstein. On the whole I vote for presentism, but what justifies truths about the past and future. Traces existing in the present?