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    It is not the case that When a false positum conflicts with the present moment, the possibility it describes must be referred to some other time, not the present.

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    • 1.The obligationes framework treats the positum as establishing a stipulated possible world, not a temporal alternative within the actual world.
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    • 2.Within a stipulated possible world, 'you are running' can be true at the present moment index without referring to a different time.
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    • 3.Temporal displacement conflates modal accessibility with temporal accessibility, a distinction Leibniz's possible worlds semantics makes precise.
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    • 1.Medieval logicians like Burley held that a false positum is granted as-if true for the duration of the disputation, suspending not time but the constraint of actuality.
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    • 2.If the positum suspends actuality rather than relocating the proposition temporally, its possibility is grounded in logical compossibility, not temporal indexing.
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    • 3.P4 of the supporting argument illicitly assumes that possibility requires a real accessible time, ruling out purely logical or intentional possibility by fiat.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.The present moment is necessary: whatever is actually the case now cannot simultaneously be otherwise.
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    • 2.If you are standing now, you cannot also be running now.
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    • 3.A false positum (e.g., 'you are running') that contradicts the present state of affairs is impossible at the present instant.
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