Semantics, Tense, and Time : An Essay in the Metaphysics of Natural Language
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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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- ISBN-13: 9780262122191
- ISBN-10: 0262122197
- Publisher: Bradford Book
- Publish Date: September 1999
- Dimensions: 9.25 x 6.35 x 0.93 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
- Page Count: 252
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