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<p>According to Peter Ludlow, there is a very close relation between the structure of natural language and that of reality, and one can gain insights into long-standing metaphysical questions by studying the semantics of natural language. In this book Ludlow uses the metaphysics of time as a case study and focuses on the dispute between A-theorists and B-theorists about the nature of time. According to B-theorists, there is no genuine change, but a permanent sequence of events ordered by an earl
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- Author
- Professor of Philosophy Peter Ludlow
- Publisher
- MIT Press; A Bradford Book
- Published
- 1999
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780585101170
- Category
- language
- Subjects
- Philosophy, Science, Psychology
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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