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Presentism and Truthmaking
Author(s) -
Caplan Ben,
Sanson David
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
philosophy compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.973
H-Index - 25
ISSN - 1747-9991
DOI - 10.1111/j.1747-9991.2010.00380.x
Subject(s) - presentism , epistemology , natural (archaeology) , philosophy , geography , archaeology
Presentism, according to which reality is limited to the present, is a natural view, but it is incompatible with the claims that reality invariably has a say in which propositions are true and that not all truths about the past are made true by the present. We survey some responses to this incompatibility.