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Single Idea 15208
[filed under theme 27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / c. Tenses and time
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Full Idea
The past, present and future walked into a bar. It was tense.
Gist of Idea
The past, present and future walked into a bar....
Source
Will Sommers (talk [2019])
The
10 ideas
with the same theme
[meaning of verbs of past and future]:
22749
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Time doesn't end with the Universe, because tensed statements about destruction remain true
[Sext.Empiricus]
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15203
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Tense is essential for thought and action
[Perry, by Le Poidevin]
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15204
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Actual tensed sentences cannot be tenseless, because they can cite their own context
[Perry, by Le Poidevin]
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15191
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At the very least, minds themselves seem to be tensed
[Le Poidevin]
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15197
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Fiction seems to lack a tensed perspective, and offers an example of tenseless language
[Le Poidevin]
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15067
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A-theorists tend to reject the tensed/tenseless distinction
[Fine,K]
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15077
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It is said that in the A-theory, all existents and objects must be tensed, as well as the sentences
[Fine,K]
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15206
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It is the view of the future that really decides between tensed and tenseless views of time
[Le Poidevin]
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14723
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Talk using tenses can be eliminated, by reducing it to indexical connections for an utterance
[Sider]
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15208
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The past, present and future walked into a bar....
[Sommers,W]
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