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Semantics, tense, and time

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"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.

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MIT Press, A Bradford Book
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English
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252

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Comparative and general Grammar, Tense, Language and languages, Time, Philosophy, Metaphysics, Semantics, Natural language processing (computer science), First philosophy, Sémantique, Langage et langues, Philosophie, Temps, Métaphysique, Temps (Linguistique), LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES, Linguistics, Tijd, Semantiek, Metafysica, Languages & Literatures, Philology & Linguistics

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-245) and index.
"A Bradford book."

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401/.43
Library of Congress
P325 .L754 1999, P325.L754 1999, P325 .L754 1999eb

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xxi, 252 p. :
Number of pages
252

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OL32396M
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0262122197
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99013958
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42922550, 40753335
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315674
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1267758

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