Concept of Time

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Teichmann, Roger

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196 Seiten

Englisch

Springer Palgrave Macmillanerschienen am13.09.19951995

The Concept of Time deals with tense and tenselessness; time, change and causation. For example, the debate about tenselessness turns out to hinge largely on whether a genuinely tense-free language is conceivable; and the possibility of time without change is grounded in what makes duration-statements have the sense they do.mehr

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KlappentextThe Concept of Time deals with tense and tenselessness; time, change and causation. For example, the debate about tenselessness turns out to hinge largely on whether a genuinely tense-free language is conceivable; and the possibility of time without change is grounded in what makes duration-statements have the sense they do.

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ISBN/GTIN978-0-333-64550-5

ProduktartBuch

EinbandartGebunden

Verlag

Springer Palgrave Macmillan

Erscheinungsjahr1995

Erscheinungsdatum13.09.1995

Auflage1995

Seiten196 Seiten

SpracheEnglisch

Gewicht350 g

IllustrationenX, 196 p.

Artikel-Nr.16952692

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GenrePhilosophie/Religion/Geisteswissenschaften

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Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction - PART 1: TENSE AND TENSELESSNESS - Preamble - McTaggart's Argument - Facts, Knowledge and Belief - Truth-Conditions - Conclusion - PART 2: HOW LONG THINGS LAST AND WHEN THEY HAPPEN - Dates and Units - Periods and Instants - PART 3: TIME, CHANGE AND CAUSATION - Time and Change - The Direction of Time - Appendix: The Notion of a Criterion: Wright's Objections - Indexmehr