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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... 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 temporal predication may be formed by temporally modifying atemporal ...
... 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 temporal predication may be formed by temporally modifying atemporal ...
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... sentence with a sentence of a formal language with the purpose of elucidating the structure of temporal modification and of allowing for a clear semantic treatment. The semantics of a temporal predication will then be the semantics of ...
... sentence with a sentence of a formal language with the purpose of elucidating the structure of temporal modification and of allowing for a clear semantic treatment. The semantics of a temporal predication will then be the semantics of ...
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... sentence on the left-hand side; and the truth conditions of a sentence deliver the semantic content of that sentence. The problem of temporal predication is how to extend this picture to temporally modified predications. In what follows ...
... sentence on the left-hand side; and the truth conditions of a sentence deliver the semantic content of that sentence. The problem of temporal predication is how to extend this picture to temporally modified predications. In what follows ...
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... sentences s, (T t ) 'WAS'ˆs is true ≡ WAS[p] s is true ≡ p 'WILL'ˆs is true ≡ WILL[p] The problem of temporal predication is to explain how temporal modification works in the case of predications of the form 'Fa'. Letting s in (Tt ) ...
... sentences s, (T t ) 'WAS'ˆs is true ≡ WAS[p] s is true ≡ p 'WILL'ˆs is true ≡ WILL[p] The problem of temporal predication is to explain how temporal modification works in the case of predications of the form 'Fa'. Letting s in (Tt ) ...
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... sentences as well as object-language sentences have tensed truth conditions. Accordingly, there is no genuinely tenseless metalanguage sentence's is true simpliciter'. There are only tensed ways a sentence s to be true: s either was, is ...
... sentences as well as object-language sentences have tensed truth conditions. Accordingly, there is no genuinely tenseless metalanguage sentence's is true simpliciter'. There are only tensed ways a sentence s to be true: s either was, is ...
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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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