Meta Ontology

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• @article{Braddon-Mitchell2006-BRATAA-2,abstract = {The paper defends a combination of $<$span class='Hi'$>$perdurantism$<$/span$>$ with mereological universalism by developing semantics of temporary predications of the sort 'some P is/was/will be (a) Q'. We argue that, in addition to the usual application of causal and other restrictions on sortals, the grammatical form of such statements allows for rather different regimentations along three separate dimensions, according to: (a) whether `P' and `Q' are being used as phase or substance sortal terms, (b) whether `is', `was', and `will be' are the `is', `was', `will be' of identity or of constitution, and (c) whether `Q' is being used as a subject or predicate term. We conclude that this latitude is beneficial, as it conforms with linguistic reality (i.e., the multiple uses actually in place) and also enables one to turn what is ordinarily perceived as a problem for universalist $<$span class='Hi'$>$perdurantism$<$/span$>$ viz., a commitment to all sorts of weird and gerrymandered temporally extended entities, into an advantage, for the richness in questions allows us to make sense of the many different readings of sentences of the same grammatical form.},author = {David Braddon-Mitchell and Kristie Miller},title = {Talking About a Universalist World},number = {3},volume = {130},journal = {Philosophical Studies},pages = {499--534},year = {2006}}@

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• Talking About a Universalist World

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• 2006

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