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Have any philosophers argued that the past doesn't really exist?
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For a little context, I recently asked here whether both presentism and eternalism both assume that only the present is real, and got really helpful answers explaining how they don't, and both accept the past existing as the past, and how the difference is whether or not the present is considered to be ontologically special compared to the past and future.

I'm now wondering if anyone has argued for a kind of radical presentism, where the past doesn't really exist, except as a kind of memory or image within the present. Or any other way in which the past could be thought of as only existing within the present.

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