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Eternalism, Counting Across Times and the Argument from Semantics

机译:永恒主义,跨时代的计数和语义学的争论

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In his 2004 paper Tensed Quantifiers' (in Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, ed. Dean W. Zimmerman. Vol. 1, 3-20. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), David Lewis presented an apparently powerful case for eternalism by arguing that we cannot account for the truth-conditions of sentences like There have been forty-four presidents of the United States' and There will be five more presidents of the United states' and maintain a non-revisionary attitude towards their truth-values, without committing to the existence of past' and future' things. Related arguments can be found in works by Ted Sider, and by Zoltan Gendler Szabo. We can call the fully developed form of this argument the Argument from Semantics (AfS). In this paper, I counter the AfS by showing that these truth-conditions can be captured without commitment to the existence (in a present tense sense or a tenseless sense) of thingssuch as Socrates and Abraham Lincolnwhich we take to have existed but not to exist, or thingslike the particular children of those born todaywhich we take it do not exist, though they will.
机译:大卫·刘易斯(David Lewis)在他2004年的论文《紧张量词》中(在《牛津研究的形而上学》,迪恩·W·齐默尔曼编,第1卷,第3-20页,牛津:牛津大学出版社,2004年)中提出了一个明显有力的永恒主义论据,理由是:我们无法解释句子的真实条件,例如美国已有44位总统,而美国将再有5位总统,并且对他们的真实价值保持非修订态度,过去和未来事物的存在。相关论点可以在Ted Sider和Zoltan Gendler Szabo的作品中找到。我们可以将此论证的完全展开形式称为“语义论”(AfS)。在本文中,我通过展示AfS来表明,可以在不承诺存在(以当前时态或无时态为前提)诸如苏格拉底和亚伯拉罕·林肯之类的事物的情况下捕获这些真实条件,我们认为这些事物已经存在但不存在,或者像我们今天出生的那些特殊孩子那样的东西不存在,尽管他们会存在。

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    《Inquiry》 |2015年第6期|561-589|共29页
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    Lee Barry;

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    Univ York, Dept Philosophy, York YO10 5DD, N Yorkshire, England;

  • 收录信息 美国《科学引文索引》(SCI);
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