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    Given presentism, everything exists at the present time. — Carmelics
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    Given presentism, everything exists at the present time.

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    • 1.Given presentism, if something exists, then it exists at the present time.
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    • 2.Everything exists.
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    • 1.Abstract objects such as numbers and propositions exist but are not located at any time, including the present.
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    • 2.If some existents are temporally unlocated, then 'exists at the present time' does not follow from 'exists' alone.
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    • 1.On possibilist ontologies (Meinong, Lewis), merely possible objects exist in some sense without being present actuals.
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    • 2.Presentism's quantifier 'everything exists' must be restricted to concrete actuals, making P2 question-begging against the possibilist.
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    [Presentists] insist that there are objects that exist at the present time (or, equivalently, that presently exist). Since they do not believe in a region called the “present time”, presentists cannot reduce existing at the present time to being located at that region. I think presentists should, instead, say that existing at the present time just is existing. Thus, given presentism, if something exists, then, obviously enough, it exists at the present time. So, given presentism, since everythin
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