Tense, reference, and worldmaking / James A. McGilvray.

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McGilvray, James A. (James Alasdair), 1942-

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9780773563131
077356313X

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Tense, reference, and worldmaking.DDC classification:

425 20

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PE1301 .M34 1991eb

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Contents:

""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""1 THE BASIC TEMPORAL AND SEMANTIC STRUCTURE OF SENTENCES""; ""1.1 Temporal and Semantic Structure""; ""1.1.1 Temporal Structure""; ""1.1.2 Reichenbach's 1947 Formalism""; ""1.1.3 The 1947 Topology Supplemented""; ""1.1.4 The Natures of Speakers, Tokens, ""Perceiver-Describers, "" Companions, and Situations""; ""1.1.5 Persons, Competence, Groups, and Locations""; ""1.2 Applying the Theory""; ""1.2.1 Adverbials and Simple Sentences""; ""1.2.2 The Future Tense""; ""1.2.3 The Anterior and Posterior""; ""1.3 Tense Is Not an SE Relationship""

""1.3.1 Tense Logic and the SE Relationship""""1.3.2 SE Relationships and the Consequences of Tenses""; ""2 COMPLEX SITUATIONS""; ""2.1 Propositional Attitudes""; ""2.1.1 The Structure in Detail""; ""2.1.2 An Epistemic Matter: Responsibility and Tense""; ""2.2 Modals, Epistemic and Root""; ""2.2.1 Root Modals""; ""2.2.2 Epistemic Modals""; ""2.3 'When'""; ""2.3.1 Conditioned Root Modals""; ""2.4 Iterative States: Habituals, Nomics, and Generalizations""; ""2.4.1 The Structure""; ""2.4.2 The Nomic Difference""; ""2.5 Conditionals and Arguments""

""2.5.1 The Structure of the Standard Conditional""""2.5.2 The Subjunctive and Counterfactual Conditionals""; ""2.5.3 Arguments, Conditioned Root-Modal Iteratives, and the Storytelling ""We""""; ""2.5.4 Conditionals, (A)s, Truth, and Scepticism""; ""3 MEANING, MEANINGFULNESS, AND REFERENCE""; ""3.1 Meaning and Meaningfulness""; ""3.2 Truth Conditions and Meaning""; ""3.3 Meaning as Referring""; ""3.3.1 Indexicality""; ""3.3.2 Exemplificational Reference to t, i[sub(s)], and p; Ties""; ""3.3.3 On Referring: Picturing Situations""; ""3.3.4 On Chomsky's Contribution""

""4.3.4 Identifying Reference and the Autonomy of Contents""""4.4 Demonstrative Reference""; ""5 EXISTENCE AND TENSE""; ""5.1 Existence: An Overview""; ""5.1.1 Existence and Meaningfulness""; ""5.1.2 Towards a Criterion of Existence""; ""5.1.3 The Platonic Gambit""; ""5.1.4 Existence Sentences""; ""5.2 Mathematical Sentences, the Existence of Numbers, and Mathematical Truth""; ""6 SITUATIONS AND ASPECTS""; ""6.1 Situations""; ""6.1.1 Movements""; ""6.1.2 Processes (Including Activities)""; ""6.1.3 Changes""; ""6.1.4 States""; ""6.2 Imperfectives and Perfectives of Situations with Bounds""

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-370) and index.

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880-01 ""4.3.4 Identifying Reference and the Autonomy of Contents""""4.4 Demonstrative Reference""; ""5 EXISTENCE AND TENSE""; ""5.1 Existence: An Overview""; ""5.1.1 Existence and Meaningfulness""; ""5.1.2 Towards a Criterion of Existence""; ""5.1.3 The Platonic Gambit""; ""5.1.4 Existence Sentences""; ""5.2 Mathematical Sentences, the Existence of Numbers, and Mathematical Truth""; ""6 SITUATIONS AND ASPECTS""; ""6.1 Situations""; ""6.1.1 Movements""; ""6.1.2 Processes (Including Activities)""; ""6.1.3 Changes""; ""6.1.4 States""; ""6.2 Imperfectives and Perfectives of Situations with Bounds""

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