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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... tense. The construal of ordinary time as A-time corresponds to the tenserist account of tense, whereas the construal of ordinary time as B-time corresponds to the detenserist account of tense. Tensers hold that grammatical tense is ...
... tense. The construal of ordinary time as A-time corresponds to the tenserist account of tense, whereas the construal of ordinary time as B-time corresponds to the detenserist account of tense. Tensers hold that grammatical tense is ...
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... tense and modification by temporal adverbials. Consider the following 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 ...
... tense and modification by temporal adverbials. Consider the following 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 ...
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... tense and corresponding treatments of temporal adverbials. Tenserism as In order logically to represent tense in natural language, it is common for tensers to introduce sentential tense operators. I shall assume that among those tense ...
... tense and corresponding treatments of temporal adverbials. Tenserism as In order logically to represent tense in natural language, it is common for tensers to introduce sentential tense operators. I shall assume that among those tense ...
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... tense operators, it seems natural to represent more complex tenses as multiple, nested occurrences of tense operators. Thus, while the simple future in 'a will be F' is analysed as 'WILL[Fa]', the future perfect in 'a will have been F ...
... tense operators, it seems natural to represent more complex tenses as multiple, nested occurrences of tense operators. Thus, while the simple future in 'a will be F' is analysed as 'WILL[Fa]', the future perfect in 'a will have been F ...
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... tense is semantically irreducible, the detenser says that tense is semantically reducible; the truth conditions of tensedsentences,along with those of tenseless sentences, are given in a. 7 See Ludlow (1999: 124–6). For discussion of ...
... tense is semantically irreducible, the detenser says that tense is semantically reducible; the truth conditions of tensedsentences,along with those of tenseless sentences, are given in a. 7 See Ludlow (1999: 124–6). For discussion of ...
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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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