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I argue for a version of tense-logical realism that privileges tensed facts without privileging any particular temporal standpoint from which they obtain.
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Fine, K. The RealIty of Tense. Synthese 150, 399–414 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-005-5515-8
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