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In the Philosophy Of Time , four dimensionalism is a term sometimes used to refer to the view that the past, present and future are all 'equally real', and that (tenselessly) there exist dinosaurs, people and (if there will be such things) cities on Mars. These things don't exist ''now'' but they do exist, with the analogy often being that, if I am in London, New York doesn't exist ''here'' even though it does exist. It is to be contrasted with '''presentism'''. 'Four dimensionalism' is also sometimes used to refer to this view ''plus'' the B-Theory Of Time . But sometimes the term is instead used to refer to the view that objects persist by having Temporal Parts . EXTERNAL LINKS
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