Times as Locations: Temporal Objects in Perspective
摘要
One key result of our discussion in the previous chapter is that it would be a mistake to side with either the critics or the defenders of the standard approach to temporal ontology. For one thing, the misguided idea that disputes over temporal ontology essentially concern the inventory seems to be largely shared by both sides. Moreover, in accepting q-consensualism, both sides ascribe far too much significance to a common understanding of quantifiers, which is in fact no prerequisite for the substantiveness of the question under dispute. But while the standard approach to temporal ontology is in need of reform, we have also seen that replacing it with a debate over the distinct question of temporal ontogeny is not the way to go either.