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Semantics, tense, and time : an essay in the metaphysics of natural language / Peter Ludlow.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Bradford bookCopyright date: ©1999Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585101175
  • 9780585101170
  • 9780262122191
  • 0262122197
  • 0262519763
  • 9780262519762
  • 9780262278621
  • 0262278626
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Semantics, tense, and time.DDC classification:
  • 401/.43 21
LOC classification:
  • P325 .L754 1999eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. The Nature of Language -- 2. The Form of the Semantic Theory -- 3. Attitudes and Indexicals -- 4. Drawing Metaphysical Consequences from a T-Theory -- 5. The B-Theory Semantics -- 6. Problems with the B-Theory Semantics -- 7. The A-Theory Semantics -- 8. Temporal Anaphora without B-Series Resources -- 9. Broadening the Investigation -- 10. 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.
Summary: 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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"A Bradford book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. The Nature of Language -- 2. The Form of the Semantic Theory -- 3. Attitudes and Indexicals -- 4. Drawing Metaphysical Consequences from a T-Theory -- 5. The B-Theory Semantics -- 6. Problems with the B-Theory Semantics -- 7. The A-Theory Semantics -- 8. Temporal Anaphora without B-Series Resources -- 9. Broadening the Investigation -- 10. 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.

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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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