The story of the tablecloth: deriving "before" from atemporal notions.
This article develops a new account of the relation "before" between events. It does so by taking the set of all states of an object, irrespective of any presupposed order, and then finding the order between events by exploiting a characteristic asymmetry which appears on this set, called the "recor...
| Publicado en: | Philosophical Studies Vol. 182; no. 5; pp. 1413 - 1432 |
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