Presentism and Grounding Past Truths

In Presentism and Grounding Past Truths. Verlag. pp. 153-172 (2013)
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In this paper I will consider a number of responses to the grounding problem for presentism. I don’t think that the grounding problem is a damning problem for the presentist (it seems to me that presentism has much more serious problems with cross-time relations and relativity). But each of the solutions comes at a cost, and some are much pricier than others. I will set out what I take these costs to be when I examine each response to the grounding problem.

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original Davidson, Matthew (2013) "Presentism and Grounding Past Truths". In Ciuni, Roberto, Torrengo, Giuliano, Miller, Kristie, New Papers on the Present: Focus on Presentism, pp. : Philosophia Verlag (2013)

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Matthew Davidson
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