TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ludlow,Peter
TI  - Semantics, tense, and time: an essay in the metaphysics of natural language 
SN  - 0585101175
AV  - P325 .L754 1999eb
U1  - 401/.43 21
PY  - 1999///
KW  - Semantics
KW  - Language and languages
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Time
KW  - Metaphysics
KW  - Grammar, Comparative and general
KW  - Tense
KW  - First philosophy
KW  - Sémantique
KW  - Langage et langues
KW  - Philosophie
KW  - Temps
KW  - Métaphysique
KW  - Temps (Linguistique)
KW  - semantics
KW  - aat
KW  - time
KW  - metaphysics
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
KW  - Linguistics
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Tijd
KW  - gtt
KW  - Semantiek
KW  - Metafysica
KW  - Languages & Literatures
KW  - hilcc
KW  - Philology & Linguistics
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - "A Bradford book."; Includes bibliographical references and index; 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; Access restricted to York University faculty, staff and students
N2  - 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
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