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Ideas of Ned Markosian, by Text
[American, fl. 2008, Professor at Western Washington University.]
2004
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A Defense of Presentism
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p.307
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Presentism is the view that only present objects exist
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2.1
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p.308
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13991
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Presentism has the problem that if Socrates ceases to exist, so do propositions about him
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2.2
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p.309
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13992
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Presentism says if objects don't exist now, we can't have attitudes to them or relations with them
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2.4
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p.309
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13994
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Presentism seems to entail that we cannot talk about other times
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3.1
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p.310
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13995
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Serious Presentism says things must exist to have relations and properties; Unrestricted version denies this
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3.10
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p.329
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14002
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Possible worlds must be abstract, because two qualitatively identical worlds are just one world
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3.4
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p.312
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13996
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Maybe Presentists can refer to the haecceity of a thing, after the thing itself disappears
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3.5
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p.314
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13997
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Maybe Presentists can paraphrase singular propositions about the past
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3.7
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p.317
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13998
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Objects in the past, like Socrates, are more like imaginary objects than like remote spatial objects
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3.8
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p.322
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13999
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People are mistaken when they think 'Socrates was a philosopher' says something
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3.8
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p.324
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14000
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'Grabby' truth conditions first select their object, unlike 'searchy' truth conditions
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3.9
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p.326
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13993
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Special Relativity denies the absolute present which Presentism needs
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3.9
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p.327
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14001
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People who use science to make philosophical points don't realise how philosophical science is
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