Third, by the time of “Events without Times”, Chisholm had become a presentist. He also was taking tense very seriously. To say that there is such a thing as x is equivalent to saying that there is such a thing as x now. On this view it would be wrong to say that there is such a thing as Socrates; equally, it would be wrong to say that Socrates is such that he formerly existed but no longer does. Nevertheless, Chisholm constructed ingenious (sometimes convoluted and unintuitive) paraphrases that enable us to say everything we need to say about Socrates and others no longer among us.