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The Language and Reality of Time

Door Thomas Sattig

Categorie	Algemeen wetenschap
Boeknummer	#398504-XL35
Titel	The Language and Reality of Time
Auteur	Sattig, Thomas
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	Oxford University Press
Jaar van uitgave	2006
ISBN10	0199279527
ISBN13	9780199279524
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original black cloth, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, 8vo.
Samenvatting	Thomas Sattig's book develops a comprehensive framework for doing philosophy of time. He brings together a variety of different perspectives, linking our ordinary conception of time with the physicist's conception, and linking questions about time addressed in metaphysics with questions addressed in the philosophy of language. Within this framework, Sattig explores the temporal dimension of the material world in relation to the temporal dimension of our ordinary discourse about theworld. The discussion is centred around the dispute between three-dimensionalists and four-dimensionalists about whether the temporal profile of ordinary objects mirrors their spatial profile. Are ordinary objects extended in time in the same way in which they are extended in space? Do they have temporal as well ... (Lees verder)as spatial parts? Four-dimensionalists say 'yes', three-dimensionalists say 'no'. Sattig develops an original three-dimensionalist picture of the material world, and argues that this pictureis preferable to its four-dimensionalists rivals if ordinary thought and talk are taken seriously. Among the issues that Sattig discusses are the metaphysics of persistence, change, composition, location, coincidence, and relativity; the ontology of past, present, and future; and the semantics ofpredication, tense, temporal modifiers, and sortal terms.
Pagina's	222
Conditie	Goed — Bottom corners slightly bumped.
Prijs	€ 60,00

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