The Language and Reality of TimeClarendon Press, 11/05/2006 - 234 من الصفحات Thomas Sattig's book develops a comprehensive framework for doing philosophy of time. He brings together a variety of different perspectives, linking our ordinary conception of time with the physicist's conception, and linking questions about time addressed in metaphysics with questions addressed in the philosophy of language. Within this framework, Sattig explores the temporal dimension of the material world in relation to the temporal dimension of our ordinary discourse about the world. The discussion is centred around the dispute between three-dimensionalists and four-dimensionalists about whether the temporal profile of ordinary objects mirrors their spatial profile. Are ordinary objects extended in time in the same way in which they are extended in space? Do they have temporal as well as spatial parts? Four-dimensionalists say 'yes', three-dimensionalists say 'no'. Sattig develops an original three-dimensionalist picture of the material world, and argues that this picture is preferable to its four-dimensionalists rivals if ordinary thought and talk are taken seriously. Among the issues that Sattig discusses are the metaphysics of persistence, change, composition, location, coincidence, and relativity; the ontology of past, present, and future; and the semantics of predication, tense, temporal modifiers, and sortal terms. |
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... answers to this problem. Knowing the possible forms of spatiotemporal location is crucial for structuring the discussion of the problem of temporal supervenience. The main answers to the problem of spatiotemporal location are three ...
... answers to this problem. Knowing the possible forms of spatiotemporal location is crucial for structuring the discussion of the problem of temporal supervenience. The main answers to the problem of spatiotemporal location are three ...
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... answers to these questions have interesting spatial and modal analogues. Despite its success in explaining the supervenience of facts of persistence and change, the temporal-parts account has objectionable consequences. I raise three ...
... answers to these questions have interesting spatial and modal analogues. Despite its success in explaining the supervenience of facts of persistence and change, the temporal-parts account has objectionable consequences. I raise three ...
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... answer part of this problem, or rather strip it down to its core, by sketching two treatments of tense and corresponding treatments of temporal adverbials. Tenserism as In order logically to represent tense in natural language, it is ...
... answer part of this problem, or rather strip it down to its core, by sketching two treatments of tense and corresponding treatments of temporal adverbials. Tenserism as In order logically to represent tense in natural language, it is ...
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... answers the question how often? The default reading is at least once, which appears in the absence = now' 9 See Parsons (1990: 213–14). of other frequency adverbials to be considered below. Thus, 'a 10 The Language and Reality of Time.
... answers the question how often? The default reading is at least once, which appears in the absence = now' 9 See Parsons (1990: 213–14). of other frequency adverbials to be considered below. Thus, 'a 10 The Language and Reality of Time.
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2 ThreeDimensionalism and FourDimensionalism | 47 |
3 Temporal Predication and Supervenience Failure | 66 |
4 FourDimensionalist Supervenience | 97 |
5 ThreeDimensionalist Supervenience | 163 |
References | 211 |
Index | 219 |
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