Rini A. The world-time parallel: tense and modality in logic and metaphysics / A.A.Rini, M.J.Cresswell. - Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. - xviii, 260 p. - Bibliogr.: p.242-251. - Ind.: p.252-260. - ISBN 978-1-107-01747-4  Место хранения:   035 | Объединенный институт истории, филологии и философии СО РАН | Новосибирск | Библиотека

Оглавление / Contents

Preface ....................................................... vii Introduction ................................................... ix PART I TRUTH AND INDEXICALITY ................................... I 1 Semantical indices ........................................... 3 2 Philosophical entities ...................................... 18 3 Situated truth .............................................. 30 4 The privileged position ..................................... 39 PART II PREDICATE LOGIC: TENSE AND MODAL ....................... 49 5 A formal language ........................................... 51 6 The non-existent ............................................ 62 7 Multiple indexing ........................................... 75 8 Time and world quantifiers .................................. 85 PART III TIMES AND WORLDS, OR TENSE AND MODALITY? .............. 97 9 Primitive modality and primitive tense ...................... 99 10 'Modalism' and 'tensism' ................................... 112 11 The present and the actual ................................. 121 12 Utterances ................................................. 132 13 Relativity ................................................. 142 PART IV DE RERUM NATURA ....................................... 153 14 Individuals and stages ..................................... 155 15 Predicate wormism .......................................... 166 16 Abstract and concrete ...................................... 177 17 Supervenience .............................................. 187 Appendices 1 The equivalence of Zmulti, Zxtw and Zi ...................... 199 2 Language and metalanguage .................................. 215 3 Plantingas metaphysics ..................................... 225 4 Interval semantics ......................................... 228 5 Fatalism and the world-time parallel ....................... 233 (with H. Kocurek) Bibliography .................................................. 242 Index ......................................................... 252