ABSTRACT
That it is now (as I write) the twentieth and not the eighteenth century is a fact of experience, over and above all B-facts about the temporal times of events, which nothing in chapter 3 captures. I call it a fact of experience for two reasons. First, it is the fact that my experiences are in the twentieth century which tells me that the twentieth century is present. Second, what makes my experiences tell me this is the self-evident fact that they themselves are present. How can we B-theorists explain this fact away?
