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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... hence would not be semantically primitive.) The thesis that tense operators are primitive, and hence not to be analysed in terms of temporal singular terms, corresponds to some tensers' aim to avoid commitment to temporal entities such ...
... hence would not be semantically primitive.) The thesis that tense operators are primitive, and hence not to be analysed in terms of temporal singular terms, corresponds to some tensers' aim to avoid commitment to temporal entities such ...
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... hence'. On this treatment, a temporal adverbial such as 'yesterday' does not refer to a time, nor is it a predicate of times. Other temporal adverbials do not submit to an analysis in terms of metric tense operators. Consider the ...
... hence'. On this treatment, a temporal adverbial such as 'yesterday' does not refer to a time, nor is it a predicate of times. Other temporal adverbials do not submit to an analysis in terms of metric tense operators. Consider the ...
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... hence allow the predication to be genuinely tenseless, while agreeing that tenseless predications have tensed truth conditions.8 In order to state precisely the thesis that tenseless predications have tensed truth conditions, I will ...
... hence allow the predication to be genuinely tenseless, while agreeing that tenseless predications have tensed truth conditions.8 In order to state precisely the thesis that tenseless predications have tensed truth conditions, I will ...
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... hence sentences with tensed truth conditions, are a myth. The tenser, on the other hand, tenses every metalanguage sentence, and therefore does not accept the 'SIMP d '-operator; to the tenser, 'SIMPd ', and hence sentences with ...
... hence sentences with tensed truth conditions, are a myth. The tenser, on the other hand, tenses every metalanguage sentence, and therefore does not accept the 'SIMP d '-operator; to the tenser, 'SIMPd ', and hence sentences with ...
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... hence that tensed sentences have tenseless truth conditions. The new B-theory denies that tensed/indexical sentences are tenseless/non-indexical sentences in disguise, but agrees that tensed sentences have tenseless truth conditions. I ...
... hence that tensed sentences have tenseless truth conditions. The new B-theory denies that tensed/indexical sentences are tenseless/non-indexical sentences in disguise, but agrees that tensed sentences have tenseless truth conditions. I ...
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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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