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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الصفحة 1
... of temporal supervenience is to specify the facts about spacetime on which facts about ordinary time supervene, and to explain how they supervene. Temporal supervenience has many aspects, corresponding to various kinds of Introduction.
... of temporal supervenience is to specify the facts about spacetime on which facts about ordinary time supervene, and to explain how they supervene. Temporal supervenience has many aspects, corresponding to various kinds of Introduction.
الصفحة 2
... explained, the shape of ordinary time needs to be clarified. This is a further task of Chapter 1. Since ordinary ... explaining how facts about B-time supervene on facts about spacetime. Part of the problem of temporal supervenience is ...
... explained, the shape of ordinary time needs to be clarified. This is a further task of Chapter 1. Since ordinary ... explaining how facts about B-time supervene on facts about spacetime. Part of the problem of temporal supervenience is ...
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... explaining temporal supervenience, an account of temporal predication functions as an analysis of ordinary temporal ... explained on the basis of them, because these accounts allow no plausible explanatory link between the facts of ...
... explaining temporal supervenience, an account of temporal predication functions as an analysis of ordinary temporal ... explained on the basis of them, because these accounts allow no plausible explanatory link between the facts of ...
الصفحة 5
... explaining temporal supervenience. 1.1 TEMPORAL LANGUAGE we say Ordinary language is related to time by being ... explain how temporal modification works. The problem of temporal predication Let us start with temporally unmodified ...
... explaining temporal supervenience. 1.1 TEMPORAL LANGUAGE we say Ordinary language is related to time by being ... explain how temporal modification works. The problem of temporal predication Let us start with temporally unmodified ...
الصفحة 6
... explaining how temporal modification works will thus be restricted to the task of specifying the logical form and semantics of such temporal predications as (1) and (2), as well as certain special cases, such as 'Zoe existed yesterday ...
... explaining how temporal modification works will thus be restricted to the task of specifying the logical form and semantics of such temporal predications as (1) and (2), as well as certain special cases, such as 'Zoe existed yesterday ...
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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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