Thisnesses, Propositions, and Truth

Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 99 (3):442-463 (2018)
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Abstract

Presentists, who believe that only present objects exist, should accept a thisness ontology, since it can do considerable work in defence of presentism. In this paper, I propose a version of presentism that involves thisnesses of past and present entities and I argue this view solves important problems facing standard versions of presentism.

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