 In the previous section, we examined various ways of resisting the first premise of our original argument—the claim that David did not exist on Monday. Let us now turn our attention to the second premise: Lump did exist on Monday. Eliminativists like Unger and van Inwagen will reject this premise, since they deny the existence of objects like Lump. But there are other accounts that reject this premise as well. One such theory is the dominant kind view defended by Michael Burke (1994, 1997a, 1997b).