Presentism and the objection from being-supervenience |
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Authors: | Brian Kierland Bradley Monton |
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Affiliation: | 1. University of Missouri , Columbia;2. University of Colorado , Boulder |
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Abstract: | In this paper, we show that presentism—the view that the way things are is the way things presently are—is not undermined by the objection from being-supervenience. This objection claims, roughly, that presentism has trouble accounting for the truth-value of past-tense claims. Our demonstration amounts to the articulation and defence of a novel version of presentism. This is brute past presentism, according to which the truth-value of past-tense claims is determined by the past understood as a fundamental aspect of reality different from things and how things are. |
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