Presentism, truthmaking and necessary connections
Ross Cameron puts forward a novel solution to the truthmaker problem facing presentism. I claim that, by Cameron's own lights, the view is not in fact a presentist view at all, but rather requires us to endorse a form of Priority Presentism, whereby past objects are derivative and depend for th...
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| description | Ross Cameron puts forward a novel solution to the truthmaker problem facing presentism. I claim that, by Cameron's own lights, the view is not in fact a presentist view at all, but rather requires us to endorse a form of Priority Presentism, whereby past objects are derivative and depend for their existence upon present objects. I argue that this view should be rejected. |
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| spelling | nottingham-444342020-05-04T17:14:14Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/44434/ Presentism, truthmaking and necessary connections Tallant, Jonathan Ross Cameron puts forward a novel solution to the truthmaker problem facing presentism. I claim that, by Cameron's own lights, the view is not in fact a presentist view at all, but rather requires us to endorse a form of Priority Presentism, whereby past objects are derivative and depend for their existence upon present objects. I argue that this view should be rejected. Wiley 2015-09-01 Article PeerReviewed Tallant, Jonathan (2015) Presentism, truthmaking and necessary connections. Theoria, 81 (3). pp. 211-221. ISSN 1755-2567 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/theo.12062/full doi:10.1111/theo.12062 doi:10.1111/theo.12062 |
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| title_short | Presentism, truthmaking and necessary connections |
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