It seems possible to see a star that no longer exists. Yet, it also seems right to say that what no longer exists cannot be seen. We therefore face a puzzle, the traditional answer to which involves abandoning naïve realism in favour of a sense datum view. In this paper, however, I offer a novel exploration of the puzzle within a naïve realist framework. As will emerge, the best option for naïve realists is to embrace an eternalist view of time, and to claim that in the relevant case, one sees a still existent star-stage that is located somewhere in the distant past.

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天真的现实主义，看星星，感知过去

似乎有可能看到一颗不再存在的恒星。然而，说不再存在的东西是看不见的似乎也是对的。因此，我们面临一个难题，传统的答案是放弃朴素实在论，转而支持感觉基准观。然而，在本文中，我在一个朴素的现实主义框架内对这个谜题进行了新颖的探索。正如即将出现的那样，天真的现实主义者的最佳选择是接受永恒主义的时间观，并声称在相关情况下，人们会看到一个位于遥远过去某处的仍然存在的明星舞台。