presentist

To a presentist, the memory accounts for the collection of events that have already occurred.

For at a certain point Podhoretz becomes, himself, suspiciously presentist.

"Something at the meeting caused them to focus on the "presentist" and "originalist" issues."

Craig is a presentist and defends the A-series of time.

When you are young it's easy be "presentist" but as you get older you realise it's all happened and been seen before!!

While the presentist asserts that the past and future are only logical constructs, the eternalist believes that time exists as an objective manifestation.

Subsequent generations of academic historians have similarly rejected Whig history because of its presentist and teleological assumption that history is driving toward some sort of goal.

Eternalism is a philosophical approach to the ontological nature of time, according to which all points in time are equally "real", as opposed to the presentist idea that only the present is real.

He says the individualist is a "presentist" and "he could not, without bad reasoning and illogic, think of sacrificing his being, or his having, to the coming of a state of things he will not immediately enjoy".

Countering a presentist interpretation are those who say this approach misses out on much of the original's value as a children's book and as a work of high fantasy in its own right, and that it disregards the book's influence on these genres.

However, to some extent the neglect of such important issues of the difference in the meaning of marriage and divorce to men and women, the contradictions in the thinking and behaviour of the two sexes, and the negotiation of their positions has something to do with another presentist shadow: that of feminism.

Taneli Kukkonen argues in the Oxford Handbook of Medieval Philosophy that "what Augustine's and Anselm's mix of eternalist and presentist, tenseless and tensed language tells is that medieval philosophers saw no need to choose sides" in the manner that modern philosophers do.