 The Manual of Reason says of time that it is the ground for statements about the past, present and future, that it is unique, eternal and ubiquitous, and that it is the container of everything and a instrumental cause of every effect (TS15+D). The conception of time mirrors that of space: it is that in virtue of which statements of the form “A is earlier than B” are objectively true of false. Time is said to differ from space, and thus not be identical with it, in the following respect: whereas what is spatially near or far varies from person to person, what is temporally near or far is the same for all persons (cf. Bhaduri 1947, Mohanty 1992). But why should we restrict our attention only to presently existing persons?