Prior and temporal sequences for natural language.

Logics of discrete time are, in Arthur Prior's words, 'applicable in limited fields of discourse in which we are concerned with what happens in a sequence of discrete states,' independent of 'any serious metaphysical assumption that time is discrete.' This insight is applied to natural language sema...

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Publicado en:Synthese Vol. 193; no. 11; pp. 3625 - 3638
Autor principal: Fernando, Tim
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Publicado: Springer Nature Nov2016
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