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| ISBN: | 9780198024361
0198024363
9780195082272
0195082273
0195155947
9780195155945
0195348184
9780195348187
0195082273
9780195155945
9780195348187
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | 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.
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| Other form: | Print version: Smith, Quentin, 1952- Language and time. New York : Oxford University Press, 2002 0195155947 9780195155945
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