 It’s true that there have been seven English Kings called “Edward”. Is presentism compatible with that claim? How should we interpret the semantics? At no point in history were there all seven Kings; the Edwards weren’t contemporaneous. But, if the Edwards didn’t all exist together, then how can &lt;There have been 7 English Kings called “Edward”&gt; be true? Presentism faces a novel problem regarding truths about the past when such truths concern “spans” of time (see Lewis 2004). After all, the natural reading is false: it was the case that “there are 7 English Kings called ‘Edward’”.