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Author Rini, A. A

Title The World-Time Parallel : Tense and Modality in Logic and Metaphysics
Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (280 pages)
Contents 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
Summary The only book to investigate the parallel between what happens at other times and what happens in other possible worlds
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Modality (Theory of knowledge)
Time.
time.
Modality (Theory of knowledge)
Time
Form Electronic book
Author Cresswell, M. J
ISBN 9781139221467
1139221469