Meta Ontology

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• 221

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• @incollection{Varzi2003-VARRPE,booktitle = {Significato e ontologia},publisher = {Franco Angeli},editor = {Claudia Bianchi and Andrea Bottani},year = {2003},title = {Riferimento, Predicazione, E Cambiamento},author = {Achille C. Varzi},pages = {221--249},abstract = {This paper focuses on the semantics of statements of the form `x is P at t' vis-\`a-vis its metaphysical underpinnings. I begin by considering four main readings, corresponding to the four basic parsings of the temporal modifier `at t': (1) at-t x is P, (2) x-at-t is P, (3) x is-at-t P, and (4) x is P-at-t. Each of these readings---which correspond to different metaphysical conceptions of the nature of temporal change---is found inadequate or otherwise problematic. In the second part of the paper I therefore consider a fifth account whose advantages over (1)--(4), I argue, exceed its revisionary costs. This fifth account is based on a conception of objects as entia successiva held together by a nexus of temporal counterparthood and reads `x is P at t' as `the t-counterpart of x is P'.}}@

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• Riferimento, Predicazione, E Cambiamento

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• 2003

last page

• 249