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In Part I, the phenomenon of tense was examined, in the context of a particular philosophical debate: the debate over whether time is ‘tenseless’ or ‘tensed’, and if either, in what sense ‘tenseless’ or ‘tensed’. In this part, I shall examine two other aspects of temporal discourse, embodied in duration-terms and dates, respectively. In the next chapter, we shall encounter a well-known debate, concerning the notion of durationless instants, but this chapter will have a less dialectical form, and will have to do in the main with the semantics of dates and units.
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For this approach to ‘earlier’ and ‘later’, see Prior, Past, Present and Future Oxford University Press, 1967, p. 41.
Kripke, Naming and Necessity Blackwell, 1980, pp. 54–60.
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Teichmann, R. (1995). Dates and Units. In: The Concept of Time. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230373877_4
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