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'fragments/reports', 'Necessity and Non-Existence' and 'The Varieties of Reference'
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27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / h. Presentism
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The past and the future subsist, but only the present exists [Chrysippus, by Plutarch]
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27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / c. Tenses and time
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It is said that in the A-theory, all existents and objects must be tensed, as well as the sentences [Fine,K]
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A-theorists tend to reject the tensed/tenseless distinction [Fine,K]
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27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / f. Tenseless (B) series
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B-theorists say tensed sentences have an unfilled argument-place for a time [Fine,K]
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27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 3. Parts of Time / e. Present moment
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The present does not exist, so our immediate experience is actually part past and part future [Chrysippus, by Plutarch]
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Time is continous and infinitely divisible, so there cannot be a wholly present time [Chrysippus, by Stobaeus]
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