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    Given presentism, if something exists, then it exists at ... — Carmelics
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    Supports→Given presentism, everything exists at the present time.

    Given presentism, if something exists, then it exists at the present time.

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    • Presentists should say that existing at the present time just is existing.
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    • 1.Bigelow and others argue that the past is real insofar as truths about it are made true by present-tensed facts about haecceities or essences.
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    • 2.If past entities ground present truths without themselves existing now, existence cannot be restricted to the present moment.
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    • 3.This Lucretianism shows presentism conflates ontological grounding with temporal location.
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    • 1.Abstract objects like numbers and propositions exist without existing at any time, including the present.
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    • 2.If atemporal entities exist, then existence cannot be equivalent to existence-at-the-present-time.
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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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