The mind can then ask itself – without engaging yet with others – whether the objects thus presented exist or not, and depending on how it resolves this question, one arrives at a positive or negative judgement.
Miller's 1949 play was his first great success, and even now its time-bend structure, in which past and present exist side by side on stage, is dramatically startling – as if you are watching a drowning man reviewing his life just before he goes under for the last time.
Three Metaphysics of Time The first view, represented on the left, is the ontologically austere view called presentism, the view that only the present exists.
More recently D.K. Johnson (2009) has taken up this solution to both logical and theological fatalism, arguing that we ought to accept presentism, the position that only the present exists.
Presentists hold that only the present exists (for an articulation of various kinds of presentism, and the challenges they face, see Bourne 2006), whereas eternalists grant equal reality to all times.
Melamid argues that the present exists.
whereas it is intended to substitute for the House of Lords as it at present exists a Second Chamber constituted on a popular instead of hereditary basis, but such substitution cannot be immediately brought into operation.
According to the objector, only the present exists.
Presentists think that only the present exists, but they're happy for us to talk about the causes of the First World War, about next week's seminar, or about David Hume.
For a Buddhist it is an illusion and only the present exists.
