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The World-Time Parallel : Tense and Modality in Logic and Metaphysics.
The only book to investigate the parallel between what happens at other times and what happens in other possible worlds.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; THE WORLD-TIME PARALLEL; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction; PART 1: Truth and indexicality; CHAPTER 1: Semantical indices; CHAPTER 2: Philosophical entities; CHAPTER 3: Situated truth; CHAPTER 4: The privileged position; PART II: Predicate logic: tense and modal; CHAPTER 5: A formal language; CHAPTER 6: The non-existent; CHAPTER 7: Multiple indexing; CHAPTER 8: Time and world quantifiers; PART III: Times and worlds, or tense and modality?; CHAPTER 9: Primitive modality and primitive tense; CHAPTER 10: 'Modalism' and 'tensism'; CHAPTER 11: The present and the actual.