Semantics, tense, and time : an essay in the metaphysics of natural language

• Tác giả: Peter Ludlow
• ISBN-10: 0262122197
• ISBN-10: 0262278626
• ISBN-10: 0262519763
• ISBN-10: 0585101175
• ISBN-13: 978-0262122191
• ISBN-13: 978-0262278621
• ISBN-13: 978-0262519762
• ISBN-13: 978-0585101170
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 401/.43 Philosophy and theory
• Thông tin xuất bản: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1999.
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource
• Bộ sưu tập: NCBI
• ID: 251381
• Chủ đề: 1. Grammar, Comparative and general--Tense; 2. Language and languages--Philosophy; 3. Metaphysics; 4. Semantics; 5. Time

Tóm tắt

 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.