# Lee comments on hoerl **Opening (not a real abstract):** Commentary on Hoerl – “Transparency and Presence” Christoph aims to explain three phenomena of temporal experience using one tool – the idea that experience lacks a temporal viewpoint. The target explananda are: (1) The apparent connection between conscious perceptual awareness of events (their “presence” in experience), and awareness of them as happening in the present (their “presence” in a different sense). Whenever we consciously perceive events, in some sense we perceive them as happening in the present. (2) An idea found in Phillips and Soteriou, that in some sense temporal properties of experience can be introspected in experience, but in a way that is nonetheless compatible with the “transparency” of experience to introspection. (3) An idea held by some proponents of Presentism and related metaphysical views,