 In dealing with the problem of God’s knowledge of future contingents, Ockham had proposed thinking about time as the modal feature of language. Propositions in the past tense are necessary per accidens: they refer to events that could have been otherwise before they happened, but that now could not have been other than they were because of the necessity of the past. Propositions in the present tense are hypothetically necessary: they refer to events that could be otherwise, but given that they are what they are, if they are, cannot not be what they are. Propositions in the future tense are contingent: they refer to events that are possible to be and also possible not to be. Ockham argued that God’s knowledge of events tracked this modal arrow just as human knowledge of events does, reintroducing an arrow of “time” for God as well as human beings.