ABSTRACT
Baron attempts to run a version of Jago's dilemma against the presentist. Baron draws a distinction between easy-road and hard-road presentisms. Easy-road presentists are those who deny that truths about the past require truthmakers. Hard-road presentists are those who try to provide the truthmakers. Torrengo focuses upon the question of explanation. He begins with the claim that people must explain why past-tensed existential claims are true. A presentist who accepts ungrounded past tensed truths as explanans in truth explanation violates, since she cannot rule out the possibility that two worlds might differ with respect to past truths, while sharing all their basic ontology and ideology. Baker considers an analysis of counterfactuals borrowed from Lewis. Baker does not think that people can reasonably claim to be true if they attempt to make use of this analysis. Even a brief survey of the literature reveals there are various ways in which people might try to explain the explanatory power of mathematics.
