Serious Copula-Tensing

• 加地, 大介

Abstract

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M. Johnston proposed an adverbialist solution to the problem of intrinsic change for enduring things. D. Lewis interpreted it as a way of tensing the copula. In his view, it has the defect of replacing the having simpliciter of a property by the standing in a triadic relation to a property and a time, and so is threatened by Bradley’s Regress. I agree with Lewis on requiring the having a property to be non-relational, while I disagree with him on restricting it to the having simpliciter. I tense the copula non-relationally and yet more seriously than Johnston, by characterizing tense as a copulative de re modality concerning endurance, which I relate to R. Taylor’s ‘pure becoming’. I will show that my way gives a better solution to the problem of intrinsic change than those by other endurantists, because of its close connection to an account of tense, endurance and becoming.

Journal

• Interdisciplinary Ontology

  Interdisciplinary Ontology 5 67-73, 2012

  慶應義塾大学　文理融合型「論理学とフォーマルオントロジー」オープンリサーチセンター

Details

• CRID: 1050845762804130944
• NII Article ID: 120006384579
• Web Site: http://id.nii.ac.jp/1586/00012087/
• Text Lang: en
• Article Type: journal article
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