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BL
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624855
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Brogaard, Berit.
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Transient truths : : an essay in the metaphysics of propositions /\ Berit Brogaard
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1 online resource (viii, 195 pages)
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0199796920 (electronic bk.)
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: 9780199796922 (electronic bk.)
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0199796904
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9780199796908
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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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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Language and languages-- Philosophy.
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Semantics.
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P106.B733 2012eb
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Ohio Library and Information Network.
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