Presentism and Distributional Properties*

Tallant, Jonathan; Ingram, David

doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199659081.003.0010

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“…Note, too, that this need not entail the fixity of the future. See Cameron We're sceptical of Cameron's claim that hyper-change is involved in the change that Tallant & Ingram (2012a) describe, from: (A) the rose is red and then the rose is dead, to: (B*) the rose is green (not red) and then the rose is dead. We simply don't see how hyper-time is required to make plausible this change.…”

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“…Hence, the union of the TDP and the age property serve to make true <Ross was a boy>, and so we have a solution to the truth-maker problem. 10 In response to this new hope for presentists, Tallant & Ingram (2012a) point to a problem that we shall rehearse here only very briefly. Tallant & Ingram argue that it's possible an object instantiating a TDP change over time, such that it instantiates different TDPs at different times, and they further argue that this generates a problem for Cameron.…”

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“…6 Our starting point is a putative solution to the truth-maker problem proposed by Cameron (2011;2013), an upstanding presentist. A problem was raised for Cameron's view by Tallant & Ingram (2012a). 7 We think the problem casts light upon a dark secret, lurking at the core of upstanding presentism.…”

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“…See Tallant & Ingram (2012b) for the second. 8 We concede that some may take the arguments that follow to motivate a rejection of presentism.…”

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“…After all, given (B*), what will be true is that the rose was green (cf. Tallant & Ingram, 2012a: 308-9-we lean very heavily on their presentation of the problem).…”

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Nefarious Presentism

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Ingram

2015

Phil. Quart.

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Keywords: presentism; truth-making; the truth-maker objection to presentism. 1.It is a period of civil war (for presentists)Presentists, who believe that only present objects exist, 1 face a familiar problem concerning truths about the past. 2 It seems presentists believe each of the following: (i) presentism; (ii) truth-maker theory (truths about the past are 'made true' by some element of our ontology); and, (iii) there are (evidence-transcendent and objective) truths about the past. 3 For obvious reasons, presentists will not be inclined to give up on presentism. The claim that truths about the past are 'made true' by some element of our ontology is popular and well-defended. 4 And, so long as they wish to avoid flying in the face of common sense, presentists must agree that there are truths about the past, e.g. that Caesar crossed the Rubicon. (We metaphysicians defer to historians on this matter.) Hence, is true, 5 and so must have a truth-maker. But note: Caesar is not a present object. And so, it seems, there is a tension.Presentists should-but cannot-locate truth-makers for true propositions about the past.

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“…See Tallant & Ingram (2012b) for the second. 8 We concede that some may take the arguments that follow to motivate a rejection of presentism.…”

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“…After all, given (B*), what will be true is that the rose was green (cf. Tallant & Ingram, 2012a: 308-9-we lean very heavily on their presentation of the problem).…”

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