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 iv
... references and index. 1. Time. I. Title. BD638.S29 2006 115—dc22 2006000592 Typeset by Laserwords Private Limited, Chennai, India Printed in Great Britain on acid-free paper by Biddles Ltd., King's Lynn, Norfolk ISBN0–19–927952–7 978–0 ...
... references and index. 1. Time. I. Title. BD638.S29 2006 115—dc22 2006000592 Typeset by Laserwords Private Limited, Chennai, India Printed in Great Britain on acid-free paper by Biddles Ltd., King's Lynn, Norfolk ISBN0–19–927952–7 978–0 ...
الصفحة x
... and Special Relativity 5.5. Temporal Predication with Complex Predicates 5.6. Coincidence and Sortal Relativity 173 178 183 191 References 211 Index 219 Introduction Both ordinary language and the material world have a x Contents.
... and Special Relativity 5.5. Temporal Predication with Complex Predicates 5.6. Coincidence and Sortal Relativity 173 178 183 191 References 211 Index 219 Introduction Both ordinary language and the material world have a x Contents.
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... references, see Pianesi and Varzi (2000). 2 See Davidson (1967). The question what form a semantic theory should take is of marginal relevance for the discussion of temporal modification to follow, since none of my considerations will ...
... references, see Pianesi and Varzi (2000). 2 See Davidson (1967). The question what form a semantic theory should take is of marginal relevance for the discussion of temporal modification to follow, since none of my considerations will ...
الصفحة 11
... references, see Ludlow (1999: 78). 12 The distinction between the old and the new B-theory is discussed in Mellor (1981, 1998), Smith (1993), Oaklander and Smith (1994), Ludlow (1999), and Craig (2000a, b). The problem of essential ...
... references, see Ludlow (1999: 78). 12 The distinction between the old and the new B-theory is discussed in Mellor (1981, 1998), Smith (1993), Oaklander and Smith (1994), Ludlow (1999), and Craig (2000a, b). The problem of essential ...
الصفحة 13
... reference to the tokening of the sentence, the starting time of the film is related to my own temporal position, and hence the temporal perspective induced by 'now' is captured.15 The token-reflexive variant of the old B-theory faces ...
... reference to the tokening of the sentence, the starting time of the film is related to my own temporal position, and hence the temporal perspective induced by 'now' is captured.15 The token-reflexive variant of the old B-theory faces ...
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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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