TY  - GEN
AB  - Annotation
AB  - According to Peter Ludlow, there is a very close relation between the structure of natural language and that of reality, and one can gain insights into long-standing metaphysical questions by studying the semantics of natural language. In this book Ludlow uses the metaphysics of time as a case study and focuses on the dispute between A-theorists and B-theorists about the nature of time. According to B-theorists, there is no genuine change, but a permanent sequence of events ordered by an earlier-than/later-than relation. According to the version of the A-theory adopted by Ludlow (a position sometimes called presentism), there are not past or future events or times; what makes something past or future is how the world stands right now.
AU  - Ludlow, Peter,
CN  - P325
CY  - Cambridge, Mass. :
DA  - 1999.
ID  - 1412220
KW  - Semantics.
KW  - Language and languages
KW  - Time.
KW  - Metaphysics.
KW  - Grammar, Comparative and general
LK  - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/6170.001.0001?locatt=mode:legacy
LK  - http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/forms/terms/vbrl-201703.pdf
N1  - "A Bradford book."
N2  - Annotation
N2  - According to Peter Ludlow, there is a very close relation between the structure of natural language and that of reality, and one can gain insights into long-standing metaphysical questions by studying the semantics of natural language. In this book Ludlow uses the metaphysics of time as a case study and focuses on the dispute between A-theorists and B-theorists about the nature of time. According to B-theorists, there is no genuine change, but a permanent sequence of events ordered by an earlier-than/later-than relation. According to the version of the A-theory adopted by Ludlow (a position sometimes called presentism), there are not past or future events or times; what makes something past or future is how the world stands right now.
PB  - MIT Press,
PP  - Cambridge, Mass. :
PY  - 1999.
SN  - 0585101175
SN  - 9780585101170
SN  - 9780262122191
SN  - 0262122197
SN  - 0262519763
SN  - 9780262519762
SN  - 9780262278621
SN  - 0262278626
T1  - Semantics, tense, and time :an essay in the metaphysics of natural language /
TI  - Semantics, tense, and time :an essay in the metaphysics of natural language /
UR  - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/6170.001.0001?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/forms/terms/vbrl-201703.pdf
ER  -