Abstract
In his stimulating defence of the common sense transient view of time ('How Time Flies', Mind, Oct. I982) Professor Schlesinger frequently and curiously puts the word 'now' in capital letters. Common sense, as manifested in ordinary language, doesn't employ this device. Though I too think the transient view is correct, I think it is crucial for Schlesinger and other advocates of the transient view to make the reason for employing such a device clear. 1 Using Schlesinger's device as a case in point, in Part I it will be shown that a seemingly watertight argument for the opposing Russellian (static) view of time can be constructed by questioning the device's raison d'etre. Then in Part II I shall attempt to turn this argument around by showing that the transient view can explain why time is extensive, and the Russellian view can't.
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