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Full Idea
Tense plays a crucial role in thought and action.
Gist of Idea
Tense is essential for thought and action
Source
report of John Perry (The Problem of the Essential Indexical [1979]) by Robin Le Poidevin - Past, Present and Future of Debate about Tense 3 a
Book Ref
'Questions of Time and Tense', ed/tr. Le Poidevin,R [OUP 2002], p.28
A Reaction
This is important, because much of our metaphysics is dominated by a detached 'scientific' description of reality, which is given a rather passive character. If processes take centre stage, which they should, then our own processes are part of it.
| 15203 | Tense is essential for thought and action [Perry, by Le Poidevin] |
| 15204 | Actual tensed sentences cannot be tenseless, because they can cite their own context [Perry, by Le Poidevin] |
| 12149 | Indexicals are a problem for beliefs being just subject-proposition relations [Perry] |
| 12151 | If we replace 'I' in sentences about me, they are different beliefs and explanations of behaviour [Perry] |
| 18412 | Indexicals individuate certain belief states, helping in explanation and prediction [Perry] |
| 12150 | Indexicals reveal big problems with the traditional idea of a proposition [Perry] |