The World-Time Parallel
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The World-Time Parallel

Tense and Modality in Logic and Metaphysics

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The World-Time Parallel

Tense and Modality in Logic and Metaphysics

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Is what could have happened but never did as real as what did happen? What did happen, but isn't happening now, happened at another time. Analogously, one can say that what could have happened happens in another possible world. Whatever their views about the reality of such things as possible worlds, philosophers need to take this analogy seriously. Adriane Rini and Max Cresswell exhibit, in an easy step-by-step manner, the logical structure of temporal and modal discourse, and show that every temporal construction has an exact parallel that requires a language that can refer to worlds, and vice versa. They make precise, in a way which can be articulated and tested, the claim that the parallel is at work behind even ordinary talk about time and modality. The book gives metaphysicians a sturdy framework for the investigation of time and modality - one that does not presuppose any particular metaphysical view.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2012
ISBN
9781139211857
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Epistemology in Philosophy

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. THE WORLD–TIME PARALLEL
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Introduction
  8. PART 1: Truth and indexicality
  9. PART II: Predicate logic: tense and modal
  10. PART III: Times and worlds, or tense and modality?
  11. PART IV: De rerum natura
  12. APPENDIX I: The equivalence of Lmulti, Lxtw and Li
  13. APPENDIX 2: Language and metalanguage
  14. APPENDIX 3: Plantinga’s metaphysics
  15. APPENDIX 4: Interval semantics
  16. APPENDIX 5: Fatalism and the world–time parallel
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index