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Present: The present is the moment that is happening right now. It is the only moment that is real, and it is the only moment that we can experience directly. See also Events, Actions, Experience, Sensory impressions, Perception, Time, Past, Future, Timelessness.
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Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments.

 
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Roderick Chisholm on Present - Dictionary of Arguments

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Time/Chisholm: Present: presence is the only time that is.
"Now" is redundant. >Now
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Times: subspecies of situations which either exist or do not exist - (so: ChisholmVs "times" as entities).
Detect the presence: when I know that it rains I know that the present time is one in which it rains - times are conjunctions of events or situations (not as an entity but as states of affairs).
"time": redundant, "by two o'clock he ascribed to himself the property, to be such that it was four o'clock". >Measurements.
>Time, >Past, >Future.

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Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments
The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition.

Chisholm I
R. Chisholm
The First Person. Theory of Reference and Intentionality, Minneapolis 1981
German Edition:
Die erste Person Frankfurt 1992

Chisholm II
Roderick Chisholm

In
Philosophische Aufsäze zu Ehren von Roderick M. Ch, Marian David/Leopold Stubenberg, Amsterdam 1986

Chisholm III
Roderick M. Chisholm
Theory of knowledge, Englewood Cliffs 1989
German Edition:
Erkenntnistheorie Graz 2004


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