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1 online resource |
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Bradford book
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| 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 |
| Notes |
"A Bradford book." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
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Semantics.
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Language and languages -- Philosophy.
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Time.
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Metaphysics.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Tense.
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First philosophy.
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Semantics
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Time
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Metaphysics
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semantics.
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time.
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metaphysics.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Semantics.
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First philosophy
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Tense
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Language and languages -- Philosophy
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Metaphysics
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Semantics
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Time
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Tijd.
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Semantiek.
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Metafysica.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
99013958 |
| ISBN |
0585101175 |
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9780585101170 |
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9780262122191 |
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0262122197 |
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0262519763 |
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9780262519762 |
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9780262278621 |
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0262278626 |
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