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The Tenseless Theory Of Time
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10-3-2007 1:23 AM
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color:#ffffcc;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/45359230-c974-4d48-b8da-062c9b235f1e/3A56B2B9-4455-4278-A148-F49816B61FAE/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://qsmithwmu.com/sentence_type_version_tenseless_theory_of_time.htm" href="http://qsmithwmu.com/sentence_type_version_tenseless_theory_of_time.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">qsmithwmu.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://qsmithwmu.com/sentence_type_version_tenseless_theory_of_time.htm"><FONT size="6" color="#660066">The "Sentence-Type Version" Of The Tenseless Theory Of Time</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://qsmithwmu.com/sentence_type_version_tenseless_theory_of_time.htm"><P align="center" class="MsoNormal"> <FONT face="trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica"><FONT color="#993399"> <B><SPAN>by Quentin Smith</SPAN></B></FONT></FONT></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://qsmithwmu.com/sentence_type_version_tenseless_theory_of_time.htm"><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT face="trebuchet ms,arial,helvetica">L. A. Paul argues there is a third and successful version of the tenseless theory of time, different than the token-reflexive version (which postulates truth conditions such as “simultaneously with the sentence-token S”) and the date—analysis version (which postulates </FONT></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://qsmithwmu.com/sentence_type_version_tenseless_theory_of_time.htm"><B> <SPAN>Page </SPAN> <SPAN>234 </SPAN> <SPAN> of Smith, Quentin, 1999, “The 'Sentence-type Version' of the Tenseless Theory of Time",</SPAN></B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://qsmithwmu.com/sentence_type_version_tenseless_theory_of_time.htm">One of the problems with the token-reflexive theory is that it implies there are non-equivalent truth conditions of the statements made (pro positions expressed) by two synonymous sentence-tokens. Suppose that a token U of “Jane is falling asleep” states a true proposition if and only if <I>U is simultaneous with Jane falling asleep</I>, and a simultaneous token V of this sentence states a true proposition if and only if <I>V is simultaneous with Jane’s falling asleep</I>. </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/3A56B2B9-4455-4278-A148-F49816B61FAE/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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