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Capraru pushes presentism to its logical extreme: not only do past and future things not exist, but (being past, being future) are not real properties of events. Instead, he analyzes temporal language using token-reflexive or indexical semantics, but anchored to a single, dynamically moving present.

He is also interested in how we can paraphrase apparently quantifying statements about the past (e.g., "There were dinosaurs") into statements that only quantify over present entities (e.g., "There are dinosaur fossils and traces, etc."). This is a classic presentist strategy, and Capraru defends it against objections about truthmakers. richard capraru

Capraru is best known for defending a version of — the view that only present objects and events exist. This is a minority position in contemporary metaphysics, where eternalism (past, present, and future all exist) dominates. Capraru pushes presentism to its logical extreme: not

Capraru is a in method — he believes metaphysics should be continuous with science, but not reducible to physics. He is willing to posit non-empirical facts (like a preferred frame) if they help solve metaphysical puzzles, but he insists on consistency with empirical findings. This is a classic presentist strategy, and Capraru