# Tense as a Feature of Perceptual Content **Opening (not a real abstract):** The strongest argument for the A-theory of time seems to be that we can somehow experience that time passes. Since it seems to us that time pass, so the argument goes, we need very good reasons to reject the A-theory. Recently however, several philosophers have challenged the assumption behind this argument.2 They argue to the contrary that we never perceive events as present or past, but merely as simultaneous, earlier or later in relation to each other. In this paper I wish to defend the assumption behind the A-theory that we can indeed perceive events as present and past. Whether or not this gives much support for the A-theory however, is a separate question which I shall mostly refrain from discussing. My argument will be presented in three steps. In the first section I shall introduce some **Authors:** [[Jan Almäng]]