 For another line of response, presentism might be modified à la Williamson (1998, 2002), who defends a view according to which past objects still exist, but are no longer concrete. We don’t take a stand on whether such a position deserves the epithet “presentism” and, further, we note that Williamson (2013: 20) explicitly states that he would prefer to see the presentism-eternalist debate recast in other terms, using a different methodology (see §3.4). Nonetheless, it is clear enough that if the existence of abstract-Socrates (who once was concrete but now is abstract) is compatible with presentism, then this would give the presentist a means to deny (7) and reject the argument given above.