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    It is not the case that Given presentism, if something exists, then it exists at the present time.

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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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    Reason for 2 of 2
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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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    Reasons Against

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    • Presentists should say that existing at the present time just is existing.
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