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    Challenges→Temporalism cannot adequately account for the retention of propositional attitudes over time.

    On temporalism, the proposition 'Violet is a child' incorporates no reference to a time and changes truth-value over time.

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    A central challenge for the view that propositions can change truth-value over time is whether the proponent of this view can make sense of retention of propositional attitudes over time. For suppose that I believe in 2014 that Violet is a child. Intuitively, I might hold fixed all of my beliefs about Violet for the next 40 years, without its being true, in 2054, that I have the obviously false belief that Violet is still a child. But the temporalist, who thinks of the proposition that Violet is

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