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The RealIty of Tense

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I argue for a version of tense-logical realism that privileges tensed facts without privileging any particular temporal standpoint from which they obtain.

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  1. Department of Philosophy, New York University, New York, NY, USA

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Fine, K. The RealIty of Tense. Synthese 150, 399–414 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-005-5515-8

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