 Presentists and the rest thus disagree about what exists. When confronted with W.V. Quine’s (1948) three Anglo-Saxon monosyllables—“What is there?”—presentists have a simple and distinctive reply: “Only what’s present”. Non-presentists demur. Eternalists say that there are past and future things too. Growing block theorists (“no-futurists”) say that there are past and present things, but no future things. On the standard, mainstream picture, what’s distinctive about presentism is determined primarily by the distinct claims made about temporal ontology. For a brief, general overview of this terrain, see the entry on  time  (§6).