UID:
almafu_9959739430602883
Umfang:
1 online resource (174 p.)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-19-176064-1
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0-19-150190-5
Inhalt:
Ulrich Meyer defends a novel theory about the nature of time and argues against the consensus view that time and space are fundamentally alike. He presents a comprehensive defence of a 'modal' account, which emphasises the similarities between times and possible worlds in modal logic, and is easily reconciled with the theory of relativity.
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Description based upon print version of record.
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""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 Relationism about time""; ""2.1 Times as classes of events""; ""2.2 Are events metaphysically basic?""; ""2.3 Temporal-parts relationism""; ""3 Temporal substantivalism""; ""3.1 Times and properties""; ""3.2 Unemployed time points""; ""3.3 The temporal manifold""; ""4 Tense logic""; ""4.1 The property�time link""; ""4.2 Modal logic in a nutshell""; ""4.3 Tense operators""; ""5 Propositions""; ""5.1 Contents of assertion""; ""5.2 Beliefs and other attitudes""; ""5.3 Facts and truth-making""; ""6 Instants of time""
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""6.1 Definitional incompleteness""""6.2 Linguistic ersatzism about times""; ""6.3 Times in the object language""; ""7 Temporal structure""; ""7.1 The number of times""; ""7.2 Eternal recurrence""; ""7.3 Objective distances""; ""8 Time and existence""; ""8.1 The logic of quantifiers""; ""8.2 Operators and quantifiers""; ""8.3 A quantified tense logic""; ""9 Presentism""; ""9.1 The triviality objection""; ""9.2 Reconstructive presentism""; ""9.3 Presentism and actualism""; ""10 The flow of time""; ""10.1 A trivial theory""; ""10.2 The moving NOW""; ""10.3 Pure becoming""
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""11 The problem of motion""""11.1 Einstein�s train example""; ""11.2 The relativity of simultaneity""; ""11.3 Minkowski spacetime""; ""12 Relativity without spacetime""; ""12.1 The inseparability argument""; ""12.2 Hybrid views""; ""12.3 Symmetries and structure""; ""13 Conclusion""; ""References""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""P""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""Z""
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-19-959933-5
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1-299-73521-5
Sprache:
Englisch
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