 Thus far, our focus has been on saying what presentism is. And, as we see it, we’ve reported faithfully what’s said typically about the view in the contemporary literature. But the recent history of presentism, the view as it appears in the earlier parts of the 20th century, is a little less clear. As far as we know, Robert Adams is the first to use the name “presentism” in print (in 1986), though he implies that he isn’t the first to name it—he writes: