Abstract
...the old tenseless theory of time assumed that a logical analysis of ordinary language that eliminates tensed discourse, supported an ontological analysis of time that rejects transient temporal properties. The tenser shared that assumption, but argued that since no tenseless translations were successful, temporal becoming... is necessary in any adequate account of time. Tensers, claim, in other words, that because tensed discourse is ineliminable, the detenser is mistaken and tensed properties and acts must exist.