Presentism
Only present things exist; past and future things do not.
What it claims
Presentism includes only present objects and events in its ontology. Dinosaurs existed but do not exist now; future people do not yet exist. It gives objective significance to the distinctions in McTaggart's A-series and treats temporal becoming as real.
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Key thinkers
A. N. Prior · Ned Markosian · Dean Zimmerman · Craig Bourne