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Eternalism, Temporalism, Neutralism
- Source :
- Inquiry. 58:608-618
- Publication Year :
- 2015
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 2015.
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Abstract
- In her Transient Truths (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012), Berit Brogaard defends temporalism about proposition content from the more traditional eternalist views. I argue that both temporalism and eternalism are equally capable of accommodating all the data, and thus suggest that we should adopt a neutralism that holds there is no serious or resolvable dispute. Contra Brogaard, I argue that neither disagreement patterns nor belief dynamics favor temporalism over eternalism. I also suggest that Brogaard's defense of operator over quantificational semantics for tense is unnecessary, because quantificational tense semantics can be given a temporalist reading, and operator tense semantics can be given an eternalist reading.
Details
- ISSN :
- 15023923 and 0020174X
- Volume :
- 58
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Inquiry
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........421e028cd47c54c85a79d424009ed89f
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174x.2015.1059112