 All of this leads us to the final option that we will consider here. Namely, that the truth-maker relation isn’t existence-entailing. This kind of approach, described elsewhere as “nefarious” (contrasted with the “upstanding” project of locating truth-makers), uses the language of truth-making without positing truth-makers for truths about the past. In presenting the nefarious strategy, we can treat it as something like the union of two theses: (1) truths about the past are expressed using primitive and unanalysable tense operators, and (2) tense operators don’t pick out a distinctive ontological category or aspect of reality. This sort of nefarious approach has been pursued recently by Tallant (2009a), Sanson &amp; Caplan (2010), and Baia (2012), amongst others. The labels (“nefarious” and “upstanding”) are due to a recent discussion by Tallant &amp; Ingram (2015).