| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 262 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Time -- Philosophy.
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Time -- Philosophy. |
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Reference (Philosophy)
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Reference (Philosophy) |
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Language and logic.
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Language and logic. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Smith, Quentin, 1952- Language and time. New York : Oxford University Press, 2002 0195155947 9780195155945 (OCoLC)51070018 |
| ISBN |
9780198024361 (electronic book) |
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0198024363 (electronic book) |
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