Language and time / Quentin Smith.

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Smith, Quentin, 1952-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 262 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780198024361
0198024363
9780195082272
0195082273
0195155947
9780195155945
0195348184
9780195348187

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Language and time.DDC classification:

115 22

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BD638 .S64 2002eb

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Contents:

The translation method and the tensed and tenseless theories of time -- The untranslatability of a-sentences by tenseless date-sentences -- The untranslatability of a-sentences by tenseless token-reflexive sentences -- The tensed theory of a-sentences -- Presentness as a logical subject of a-sentences -- Presentness as a logical subject of tenseless sentences -- Absolute presentness and the special theory of relativity -- Conclusion.

Summary: This book offers a defense of the tensed theory of time, a critique of the New Theory of Reference, and an argument that simultaneity is absolute. Although Smith rejects ordinary language philosophy, he shows how it is possible to argue from the nature of language to the nature of reality. Specifically, he argues that semantic properties of tensed sentences are best explained by the hypothesis that they ascribe to events temporal properties of futurity, presentness, or pastness and do not merely ascribe relations of earlier than or simultaneity. He criticizes the New Theory of Reference, which.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

This book offers a defense of the tensed theory of time, a critique of the New Theory of Reference, and an argument that simultaneity is absolute. Although Smith rejects ordinary language philosophy, he shows how it is possible to argue from the nature of language to the nature of reality. Specifically, he argues that semantic properties of tensed sentences are best explained by the hypothesis that they ascribe to events temporal properties of futurity, presentness, or pastness and do not merely ascribe relations of earlier than or simultaneity. He criticizes the New Theory of Reference, which.

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