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Transient truths :

0199796920 (electronic bk.)

9780199796922 (electronic bk.)

0199796904

9780199796908

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Transient truths :

[Book]

an essay in the metaphysics of propositions /

Berit Brogaard

1 online resource (viii, 195 pages)

Includes bibliographical references and index

1. Characterizing Temporalism. Times in Propositions vs. Time Neutrality ; Truth Conditions ; Temporal Propositions are Truth-Evaluable ; Signpost. -- 2. Reporting Belief. The Classical Objections ; Recent Debate ; Temporalism and Belief Reports ; Temporalism and Belief Retention ; Belief De Se ;The Argument from Belief Retention ; The Accident ; Signpost. -- 3: Disagreeing Across Time. Passing on Information across Time ; Arguments from Disagreement against Temporalism ; Signpost. -- 4. Representing Time. The Time Analysis and Temporalism ; The Event Analysis ; The Empirical Evidence against Traditional Tense Logic ; Time Adverbials ; Composite Tense Operators ; Span operators ; The Ellipsis Theory ; The Temporal Anaphora Hypothesis ; The Counter Evidence Explained ; Signpost. -- 5. Reviving Priorian Tense Logic. The SOT Rule ; Later-Than-Matrix Interpretations and Kamp/Vlach Sentences ; The PTQ Fragment ; Partee Sentences ; Pragmatic Rules for Noun Denotation ; Double Access Sentences ; Location Operators ; Signpost. -- 6. Embedding under Tense Operators ; Kaplan's Argument ; Objections to Kaplan's Argument ; The Redundancy of the Present Tense ; An Argument against Quantifier Analyses ; Signpost. -- 7. Representing Eternally. Two Kinds of Content ; Past- and Future-Tensed Sentences ; Conjoined Propositions ; Two Kinds of Propositions ; Eternal Propositions and Metaphysical Eternalism ; Signpost. -- 8. Representing the World Egocentrically. C & H's Main Argument against Relativism ; The Argument from Perception ; Non-Indexical Contextualism ; Temporalism Defended ; Signpost

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362550

Transient truths.

9780199796908

Language and languages-- Philosophy.

Semantics.

Brogaard, Berit.

Ohio Library and Information Network.

20121214091900.0

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