Semantics, tense, and time
an essay in the metaphysics of natural language
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Word Count
63,000 words, Guess
Page Count
252 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL32396M
- ISBN-100262122197
- OCLC Control Number42922550
- OCLC Control Number40753335
- OCLC Control Numbersemanticstenseti00ludl_682
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number99013958
- Goodreads1267758
- LibraryThing315674
Classifications
- DDC401/.43
- LCCP325 .L754 1999
Description
"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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