Full Idea
Contemporary philosophers are not comfortable with presentism, because it is difficult to deal with presentism in the language of first-order predicate logic.
Gist of Idea
It is difficult to handle presentism in first-order logic
Source
R.D. Ingthorsson (A Powerful Particulars View of Causation [2021], 1.8)
Book Reference
'Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Time', ed/tr. Callender,Craig [OUP 2013], p.15
A Reaction
Presumable that logic relies on objects which endure through time, or at least have a past. Second-order logic is better able to deal with processes, which only exist in the present, but nevertheless have an integral past and future. ?
Related Idea
Idea 22609 Philosophers accepted first-order logic, because they took science to be descriptive, not explanatory [Ingthorsson]