ISBN:
9789400751675
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (173 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Series Statement:
Synthese Library v.361
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DDC:
115
Keywords:
Semantics
;
Metaphysics
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Over the past few years, the tree model of time has been widely employed to deal with issues concerning the semantics of tensed discourse. This book examines this model and its alternatives, both from a semantic and from a metaphysical point of view. .
Abstract:
Intro -- Around the Tree -- Preface -- Contents -- Relativism, the Open Future, and Propositional Truth -- Timeless Truth -- Determinism, the Open Future and Branching Time -- Branching Time and Temporal Unity -- Fictional Branching Time? -- The Open Future and Its Exploitation by Rational Agents -- The Metaphysics of the Thin Red Line -- The Truth About the Past and the Future -- Non-proxy Reductions of Eternalist Discourse.
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