Language and Time (Paperback)

Smith

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Lingua: inglese

Editore: Oxford University Press Inc, New York, 2002

0195155947 / 9780195155945

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Paperback. This book offers a defense of the tensed theory of time, a critique of the New Theory of Reference, and an argument that simultaneity is absolute. Although Smith rejects ordinary language philosophy, he shows how it is possible to argue from the nature of language to the nature of reality. Specifically, he argues that semantic properties of tensed sentences are best explained by the hypothesis that they ascribe to events temporal properties of futurity,presentness, or pastness and do not merely ascribe relations of earlier than or simultaneity. He criticizes the New Theory of Reference, which holds that "now" refers directly to a time and does not ascribe theproperty of presentness. Smith does not adopt the old or Fregean theory of reference but develops a third alternative, based on his detailed theory of de re and de dicto propositions and a theory of cognitive significance. He concludes the book with a lengthy critique of Einstein's theory of time. Smith offers a positive argument for absolute simultaneity based on his theory that all propositions exist in time. He shows how Einstein's relativist temporal concepts arereducible to a conjunction of absolutist temporal concepts and relativist nontemporal concepts of the observable behavior of light rays, rigid bodies, and the like. Quentin Smith shows how it is possible to argue from the nature of language to the nature of reality. He criticizes the New Theory of Reference and develops an alternative to the old or Fregean theory of reference based on his theory of de re and de dicto propositions and cognitive significance. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

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Titolo
Language and Time (Paperback)
Autore
Smith
Editore
Oxford University Press Inc, New York
Anno di pubblicazione
2002
Condizione
new
Rilegatura
Paperback
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
0195155947
ISBN 13
9780195155945

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