 Kilvington’s affinity to Scotus may also be seen in his theory of future contingents. He is in agreement with Scotus (Lectura I, dist. 39, qq. 1–5) in saying that only an instant in time is present since only the ‘now’ exists. Therefore, Aquinas’s analogy to God sitting at the center of a circle and being present to the whole of time fails, whereas Scotus’s concept of a radius sweeping out the circumference of the circle is correct, since the entire circle does not exist all at once. He quotes Scotus verbatim: