Semantics, tense, and time : an essay in the metaphysics of natural language / Peter Ludlow.
1999
P325 .L754 1999eb
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Semantics, tense, and time : an essay in the metaphysics of natural language / Peter Ludlow.
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0585101175 (electronic bk.)
9780585101170 (electronic bk.)
9780262122191 (alk. paper)
0262122197 (alk. paper)
0262519763
9780262519762
0262122197
9780262278621 (electronic bk.)
0262278626 (electronic bk.)
9780585101170 (electronic bk.)
9780262122191 (alk. paper)
0262122197 (alk. paper)
0262519763
9780262519762
0262122197
9780262278621 (electronic bk.)
0262278626 (electronic bk.)
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Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1999.
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©1999
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English
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P325 .L754 1999eb
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401/.43
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Annotation 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.
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Annotation 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.
Annotation 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.
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