Semantics, tense, and time
an essay in the metaphysics of natural language
Edición de la obra Semantics, tense, and time
| Autor | Peter Ludlow |
|---|---|
| Editorial | MIT Press, A Bradford Book |
| Fecha de publicación | 1999 |
| Lugar | Cambridge, Mass |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 252 |
| ISBN-10 | 0262122197 |
| OCLC | 42922550, 40753335 |
| LCCN | 99013958 |
| Número de Cutter | L945s |
"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 no past or future events or times; what makes something past or future is how the world stands right now."--BOOK JACKET.