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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... examples: (1) Zoe was happy. (2) Zoe was happy yesterday. The first sentence contains a predicate in the past tense. The second sentence contains, in addition to a tensed predicate, the temporal adverbial 'yesterday'. Another kind of ...
... examples: (1) Zoe was happy. (2) Zoe was happy yesterday. The first sentence contains a predicate in the past tense. The second sentence contains, in addition to a tensed predicate, the temporal adverbial 'yesterday'. Another kind of ...
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... example: (3) Zoe danced yesterday. For reasons of simplicity, I shall be concerned primarily with temporal predications such as (1) and (2). According to a widely accepted treatment of temporal predications such as (3), these are ...
... example: (3) Zoe danced yesterday. For reasons of simplicity, I shall be concerned primarily with temporal predications such as (1) and (2). According to a widely accepted treatment of temporal predications such as (3), these are ...
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... example, 'Fa' combines with 'WAS' to form 'WAS[Fa]'. The past-tense predication 'a was F' may then be regimented as 'WAS[Fa]'. This account of the logical grammar of tense is essentially the account adopted by tense logicians such as ...
... example, 'Fa' combines with 'WAS' to form 'WAS[Fa]'. The past-tense predication 'a was F' may then be regimented as 'WAS[Fa]'. This account of the logical grammar of tense is essentially the account adopted by tense logicians such as ...
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... example, 'a was F yesterday'may be read as 'yesterday[Fa]', and 'a will be F tomorrow' may be read as 'tomorrow[Fa]'. that is more economical in that it avoids having to introduce an individual semantic axiom for 'yesterday', 'two days ...
... example, 'a was F yesterday'may be read as 'yesterday[Fa]', and 'a will be F tomorrow' may be read as 'tomorrow[Fa]'. that is more economical in that it avoids having to introduce an individual semantic axiom for 'yesterday', 'two days ...
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... example, receives the following reading: (11) ∃t(t < now & t∈ yesterday & a is F at t) The clause contributed by ... examples: (16) a was always F. (17) a was always F at midnight. Letting 'T' be a variable ranging over intervals ...
... example, receives the following reading: (11) ∃t(t < now & t∈ yesterday & a is F at t) The clause contributed by ... examples: (16) a was always F. (17) a was always F at midnight. Letting 'T' be a variable ranging over intervals ...
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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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