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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... utterance. When uttered at t1 , 'now' refers to t1 , when uttered at t2 , 'now' refers to t2 . So much is common ground among friends of the old and the new B-theory. Views diverge on the issue of how 'now' manages to refer to different ...
... utterance. When uttered at t1 , 'now' refers to t1 , when uttered at t2 , 'now' refers to t2 . So much is common ground among friends of the old and the new B-theory. Views diverge on the issue of how 'now' manages to refer to different ...
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... utterance of a sentence, or what is said by a sentence as uttered on a particular occasion, encodes the truth conditions of the utterance. Thus, an utterance at t—in short, an utterance ut—of'a is F now' has the following non-indexical ...
... utterance of a sentence, or what is said by a sentence as uttered on a particular occasion, encodes the truth conditions of the utterance. Thus, an utterance at t—in short, an utterance ut—of'a is F now' has the following non-indexical ...
الصفحة 13
... utterance of 'The film starts at 8.30 p.m.'express different propositions. The disquotational treatment of tenses is ... utterance of 'a is F now' expresses the proposition that a is F at the time at which this token is uttered. Thus, an ...
... utterance of 'The film starts at 8.30 p.m.'express different propositions. The disquotational treatment of tenses is ... utterance of 'a is F now' expresses the proposition that a is F at the time at which this token is uttered. Thus, an ...
الصفحة 14
... utterance ut must be removed from the truth conditions without removing reference to the time of ut. an utterance Thus, (T at d t 1 ) of avoids (9) the problem of tokenless truth. According to is true just in case there are no ...
... utterance ut must be removed from the truth conditions without removing reference to the time of ut. an utterance Thus, (T at d t 1 ) of avoids (9) the problem of tokenless truth. According to is true just in case there are no ...
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... utterance'. This linguistic meaning together with facts about an utterance determine the time to which an utterance of 'now' refers. So far, the semantic account of 'now' resembles that of Reichenbach's token-reflexive variant of the ...
... utterance'. This linguistic meaning together with facts about an utterance determine the time to which an utterance of 'now' refers. So far, the semantic account of 'now' resembles that of Reichenbach's token-reflexive variant of the ...
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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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According account of temporal adverbialism answer argument Assuming avoids base Charlie claim coincidence complex concerning consequence consider construed contains dimension discussion distinct entails equivalent example existence explain extended facts four-dimensionalism four-dimensionalist frame function further given happy hence hyperplanes identical instantaneous instantaneous temporal instantiation intuitive language lump means metaphysical modal modifier natural notion object occupies occupies operator ordinary conception ordinary objects ordinary temporal past persistence person points possible present principle problem properties question reading reason reference relation relative relativistic relativized representational representative requirement respect semantic sense sentence shapes simpliciter simultaneity sortal sorts space spacetime conception spacetime points spacetime region spatial spatiotemporal location standard statement statue temporal predication temporal supervenience temporal-parts account temporal-regions account temporally modified tense tenseless tenser theory of temporal thesis things three-dimensionalism three-dimensionalist true truth conditions TS4D universals utterance variation various