The world-time parallel tense and modality in logic and metaphysics
Is what could have happened but never did as real as what did happen? What did happen, but isn't happening now, happened at another time. Analogously, one can say that what could have happened happens in another possible world. Whatever their views about the reality of such things as possible w...
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Cambridge University Press
2012
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. Truth and Indexicality: 1. Semantical indices; 2. Philosophical entities; 3. Situated truth; 4. The privileged position
- Part II. Predicate Logic: Tense and Modal: 5. A formal language; 6. The non-existent; 7. Multiple indexing; 8. Time and world quantifiers
- Part III. Times and Worlds, or Tense and Modality?: 9. Primitive modality and primitive tense; 10. 'Modalism' and 'tensism'; 11. The present and the actual; 12. Utterances; 13. Relativity
- Part IV. De Rerum Natura: 14. Individuals and stages; 15. Predicate wormism; 16. Abstract and concrete; 17. Supervenience
- Appendices: 1. The equivalence of Lmulti, Lxtw and Li; 2. Language and metalanguage; 3. Plantinga's metaphysics; 4. Interval semantics; 5. Fatalism and the world-time parallel (with H. Kocurek)