Questions of Time and Tense - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Questions of Time and Tense write by Robin Le Poidevin. This book was released on 1998. Questions of Time and Tense available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. These essays broaden the debate on the nature of time. They provide an outline to the debate, presenting rival theories which demonstrate that such questions are intimately connected with issues in other fields of philosophy.
Questions of Time and Tense
Questions of Time and Tense - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Questions of Time and Tense write by Robin Le Poidevin. This book was released on 2002. Questions of Time and Tense available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. These essays broaden the debate on the nature of time. They provide an outline to the debate, presenting rival theories which demonstrate that such questions are intimately connected with issues in other fields of philosophy.
Papers on Time and Tense
Papers on Time and Tense - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Papers on Time and Tense write by Arthur N. Prior. This book was released on 2003. Papers on Time and Tense available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is a revised and expanded edition of a seminal work in the logic and philosophy of time, originally published in 1968. Arthur N. Prior (1914-1969) was the founding father of temporal logic, and his book offers an excellent introduction to the fundamental questions in the field. Several important papers have been added to the original selection, as well as a comprehensive bibliography of Prior's work and an illuminating interview with his widow, Mary Prior. In addition, the Polish logic which made Prior's writings difficult for many readers has been replaced by standard logical notation. This new edition will secure the classic status of the book.
Inquisitive Semantics
Inquisitive Semantics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Inquisitive Semantics write by Ivano Ciardelli. This book was released on 2018-12-27. Inquisitive Semantics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. This book presents a new logical framework to capture the meaning of sentences in conversation. The traditional approach equates meaning with truth-conditions: to know the meaning of a sentence is to know under which circumstances it is true. The reason for this is that linguistic and philosophical investigations are usually carried out in a logical framework that was originally designed to characterize valid argumentation. However, argumentation is neither the sole, nor the primary function of language. One task that language more widely and ordinarily fulfils is to enable the exchange of information between conversational participants. In the framework outlined in this volume, inquisitive semantics, information exchange is seen as a process of raising and resolving issues. Inquisitive semantics provides a new formal notion of meaning, which makes it possible to model various concepts that are crucial for the analysis of linguistic information exchange in a more refined and more principled way than has been possible in previous frameworks. Importantly, it also allows an integrated treatment of statements and questions. The first part of the book presents the framework in detail, while the second demonstrates its benefits in the semantic analysis of questions, coordination, modals, conditionals, and intonation. The book will be of interest to researchers and students from advanced undergraduate level upwards in the fields of semantics, pragmatics, philosophy of language, and logic.
Time, Tense, and Reference
Time, Tense, and Reference - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Time, Tense, and Reference write by Aleksandar Jokic. This book was released on 2003-09-12. Time, Tense, and Reference available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Among the many branches of philosophy, the philosophy of time and the philosophy of language are more intimately interconnected than most, yet their practitioners have long pursued independent paths. This book helps to bridge the gap between the two groups. As it makes clear, it is increasingly difficult to do philosophy of language without any metaphysical commitments as to the nature of time, and it is equally difficult to resolve the metaphysical question of whether time is tensed or tenseless independently of the philosophy of language. Indeed, one is tempted to see philosophy of language and metaphysics as a continuum with no sharp boundary. The essays, which were written expressly for this book by leading philosophers of language and philosophers of time, discuss the philosophy of language and its implications for the philosophy of time and vice versa. The intention is not only to further dialogue between philosophers of language and of time but also to present new theories to advance the state of knowledge in the two fields. The essays are organized in two sections—one on the philosophy of tensed language, the other on the metaphysics of time.
