 As we’ve seen, standard ways of characterizing presentism face definitional worries. So, let’s change tack for a moment. Typically, presentism is presented as the view that only present things exist. But it might seem natural to suppose that there’s more to presentism than a claim about the extent of our ontological commitments. That is, presentism shouldn’t just be seen as a list of which objects exist (the present ones), but a claim about existence itself. For instance, Dean Zimmerman (1996) characterizes presentism as the view that “to be present just is to be real or to exist” (1996: 117). When presentism is characterized in this way, we can label it “Existence Presentism”, following Jonathan Tallant (2014).