Why There Cannot be Any Such Thing as 'Time Travel'.
Extending work of Wittgenstein, Lakoff and Johnson I suggest that it is the (spatial) metaphors we rely on in order to conceptualise time that provide an illusory space for time-travel-talk. For example, in the 'Moving Time' spatialisation of time, 'objects' move past the agent from the future to th...
| Publicado en: | Philosophical Investigations Vol. 35; no. 2; pp. 138 - 155 |
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