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 vii
... thesis that forms the origin of this book, and who accompanied the book's progress with stimulating insights. I am also grateful to Jeremy Butterfield, Kit Fine, Graeme Forbes, Jonathan Lowe, Kris McDaniel, Hugh Mellor, Adrian Moore ...
... thesis that forms the origin of this book, and who accompanied the book's progress with stimulating insights. I am also grateful to Jeremy Butterfield, Kit Fine, Graeme Forbes, Jonathan Lowe, Kris McDaniel, Hugh Mellor, Adrian Moore ...
الصفحة 1
... thesis of temporal supervenience. The problem 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 ...
... thesis of temporal supervenience. The problem 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 ...
الصفحة 3
... theses and theories, including the theory of temporal parts, endurantism, perdurantism, eternalism, and presentism. An account of temporal supervenience requires an account of temporal predication—a semantic account of the language in ...
... theses and theories, including the theory of temporal parts, endurantism, perdurantism, eternalism, and presentism. An account of temporal supervenience requires an account of temporal predication—a semantic account of the language in ...
الصفحة 7
... 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 as instants, or times.5 Tenserist semantic ...
... 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 as instants, or times.5 Tenserist semantic ...
الصفحة 9
... thesis that tenseless predications have tensed truth conditions, I will introduce the sentential operator 'SIMP t ' to represent the tenser's understanding of the adverb 'simpliciter': (4) 'SIMP t 'ˆs is true ≡ WAS[p] ∨ p ∨ WILL[p] ...
... thesis that tenseless predications have tensed truth conditions, I will introduce the sentential operator 'SIMP t ' to represent the tenser's understanding of the adverb 'simpliciter': (4) 'SIMP t 'ˆs is true ≡ WAS[p] ∨ p ∨ WILL[p] ...
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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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