The Presentist's Dilemma

In Ernâni Magalhães & L. Nathan Oaklander (eds.), Presentism: Essential Readings. Lexington Books. pp. 99-108 (2010)
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This paper defends three theses: (i) that presentism is either trivial or untenable; (ii) that the debate between tensed and tenseless theories of time is not about the status of presentism; and (iii) that there is no temporal analogue of the modal thesis of actualism.

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