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    It is not the case that Eternalist propositions are complete entities with times built in: 'Violet is a child at t' is timelessly true or false, requiring no index.

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    • 1.Our fundamental logical practices require present-tense truth: 'It is now raining' cannot be evaluated without privileging the present moment.
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    • 2.Eternalism conflates propositions with sentences: 'Violet is a child' and 'Violet is a child at t' express different semantic contents fundamentally.
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    • 3.Eternalism cannot account for temporal becoming, change, or why the future seems genuinely open in ways the past does not.
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    • 1.Temporal facts are determinate facts: whether Violet was a child is now settled, not indeterminate, supporting tenseless truth-conditions.
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    • 2.Scientific physics treats time as a dimension like space; tenseless propositions with temporal coordinates mirror spatial ones naturally.
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    • 3.Indexical theories require constant metalinguistic context-shifting, while eternalism provides uniform truth-evaluation across all times uniformly.
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