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'fragments/reports', 'The Myth of Sisyphus' and 'A Defense of Presentism'
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27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / d. Time as measure
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Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus]
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27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / h. Presentism
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Presentism is the view that only present objects exist [Markosian]
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Presentism says if objects don't exist now, we can't have attitudes to them or relations with them [Markosian]
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Presentism seems to entail that we cannot talk about other times [Markosian]
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Serious Presentism says things must exist to have relations and properties; Unrestricted version denies this [Markosian]
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Maybe Presentists can refer to the haecceity of a thing, after the thing itself disappears [Markosian]
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Maybe Presentists can paraphrase singular propositions about the past [Markosian]
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Special Relativity denies the absolute present which Presentism needs [Markosian]
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27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / k. Temporal truths
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Objects in the past, like Socrates, are more like imaginary objects than like remote spatial objects [Markosian]
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People are mistaken when they think 'Socrates was a philosopher' says something [Markosian]
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