Semantics, tense, and time : an essay in the metaphysics of natural language /
Ludlow, Peter, 1957-
Semantics, tense, and time : an essay in the metaphysics of natural language / Peter Ludlow. - Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1999. - 1 online resource - Bradford book. .
"A Bradford book."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The Nature of Language -- The Form of the Semantic Theory -- Attitudes and Indexicals -- Drawing Metaphysical Consequences from a T-Theory -- The B-Theory Semantics -- Problems with the B-Theory Semantics -- The A-Theory Semantics -- Temporal Anaphora without B-Series Resources -- Broadening the Investigation -- Consequences -- Appendix P1 Is I-Language the Language of Thought? -- Appendix P2 Language/World Isomorphism?1 -- Appendix T1 A Basic Quantificational Fragment -- Appendix T2 A Quantificational Fragment with Events -- Appendix T3 A Fragment with ILFs for Propositional Attitudes -- Appendix T4 A B-Theory Technical Fragment -- Appendix T5 A Basic A-Theory Fragment -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
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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.
English.
0585101175 9780585101170 9780262122191 0262122197 0262519763 9780262519762 9780262278621 0262278626
6170 MIT Press 9780262278621 MIT Press
99013958
Semantics.
Language and languages--Philosophy.
Time.
Metaphysics.
Grammar, Comparative and general--Tense.
First philosophy.
Semantics
Time
Metaphysics
Sémantique.
Langage et langues--Philosophie.
Temps.
Métaphysique.
Temps (Linguistique)
semantics.
time.
metaphysics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES--Linguistics--Semantics.
Grammar, Comparative and general--Tense.
Language and languages--Philosophy.
Metaphysics.
Semantics.
Time.
Tijd.
Semantiek.
Metafysica.
Languages & Literatures.
Philology & Linguistics.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
P325 / .L754 1999eb
401/.43
Semantics, tense, and time : an essay in the metaphysics of natural language / Peter Ludlow. - Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1999. - 1 online resource - Bradford book. .
"A Bradford book."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The Nature of Language -- The Form of the Semantic Theory -- Attitudes and Indexicals -- Drawing Metaphysical Consequences from a T-Theory -- The B-Theory Semantics -- Problems with the B-Theory Semantics -- The A-Theory Semantics -- Temporal Anaphora without B-Series Resources -- Broadening the Investigation -- Consequences -- Appendix P1 Is I-Language the Language of Thought? -- Appendix P2 Language/World Isomorphism?1 -- Appendix T1 A Basic Quantificational Fragment -- Appendix T2 A Quantificational Fragment with Events -- Appendix T3 A Fragment with ILFs for Propositional Attitudes -- Appendix T4 A B-Theory Technical Fragment -- Appendix T5 A Basic A-Theory Fragment -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Access restricted to York University faculty, staff and students.
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.
English.
0585101175 9780585101170 9780262122191 0262122197 0262519763 9780262519762 9780262278621 0262278626
6170 MIT Press 9780262278621 MIT Press
99013958
Semantics.
Language and languages--Philosophy.
Time.
Metaphysics.
Grammar, Comparative and general--Tense.
First philosophy.
Semantics
Time
Metaphysics
Sémantique.
Langage et langues--Philosophie.
Temps.
Métaphysique.
Temps (Linguistique)
semantics.
time.
metaphysics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES--Linguistics--Semantics.
Grammar, Comparative and general--Tense.
Language and languages--Philosophy.
Metaphysics.
Semantics.
Time.
Tijd.
Semantiek.
Metafysica.
Languages & Literatures.
Philology & Linguistics.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
P325 / .L754 1999eb
401/.43