Tense and Indeterminateness

Tense and Indeterminateness

Is tense real and objective? Can the fact that something is past, say, be wholly objective, consistent with modern physics? I believe that it can. But some hold that for tense to be real, then a certain ontological doctrine must also hold. There must be a fact of the matter as to what really, truly, exists at each time. For example, it is held that only what is now really exists. This is the do...

Indeterminateness of Equilibria and Macroeconomics

Indeterminateness in Qualitative and Quantitative Reasoning

A central issue of expert systems is the man-machine-interface. One of its most ergonomic real-izations is a natural language interface. Uncertainty and indeterminateness are main properties of natural language. While there are many formalisms dealing with uncertainty, there still is a strong need of those modeling indeterminateness. Therefore a formalism is presented which (a) formalizes the s...

Lecture 2 : Time , tense , and tense - logic ∗

Comparison with indeterminateness: a multidimensional approach

Introduction: In Japanese the meaning of free choice is expressed by indeterminate pronouns and the particle mo in comparative environments, as shown in (1). (Note: normally, the meaning of free choice is expressed by indeterminate pronouns plus demo, but demo cannot appear in comparative environments). (1a) and (1b) are different in word order, but semantically, they both have what I call the ...