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Around the Tree
. Ed(S): Correia, Fabrice; Iacona, Andrea
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Paperback. Over the past few years, the tree model of time has been widely employed to deal with issues concerning the semantics of tensed discourse. This book examines this model and its alternatives, both from a semantic and from a metaphysical point of view. Editor(s): Correia, Fabrice; Iacona, Andrea. Series: Synthese Library. Num Pages: 176 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFA; HPJ; HPL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 10. Weight in Grams: 279.
Over the past few years, the tree model of time has been widely employed to deal with issues concerning the semantics of tensed discourse. The thought that has motivated its adoption is that the most plausible way to make sense of indeterminism is to conceive of future possibilities as branches that depart from a common trunk, constituted by the past and the present. However, the thought still needs to be further articulated and defended, and several important questions remain open, such as the question of how actuality can be understood and formally represented in a branching framework. The present volume ... Read more
Over the past few years, the tree model of time has been widely employed to deal with issues concerning the semantics of tensed discourse. The thought that has motivated its adoption is that the most plausible way to make sense of indeterminism is to conceive of future possibilities as branches that depart from a common trunk, constituted by the past and the present. However, the thought still needs to be further articulated and defended, and several important questions remain open, such as the question of how actuality can be understood and formally represented in a branching framework. The present volume ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Series
Synthese Library
Number of Pages
168
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9789401781619
SKU
V9789401781619
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