The logic of time. A model-theoretic investigation into the varieties of temporal ontology and temporal discourse.
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: The logic of time. A model-theoretic investigation into the varieties of temporal ontology and temporal discourse.
zbMATH Open document ID: 0758.03012
published in: Synthese Library
publication date: 1993-01-23T00:00:00Z
review text: The subject of Time has a wide intellectual appeal across different disciplines. This has shown in the variety of reactions received from readers of the first edition of the present Book (1983; Zbl 0508.03008). Many have reacted to issues raised in its philosophical discussions, while some have even solved a number of the open technical questions raised in the logical elaboration of the latter. These results wil be recorded below, at a more convenient place. In the seven years after the first publication, there have been some noticeable newer developments in the logical study of Time and temporal expressions. As far as Temporal Logic proper is concerned, it seems fair to say that these amount to an increase in coverage and sophistication, rather than further break-through innovation. In fact, perhaps the most significant sources of new activity have been the applied areas of Linguistics and Computer Science (including Artificial Intelligence), where many intriguing new ideas have appeared presenting further challenges to temporal logic. Now, since this Book has a rather tight composition, it would have been difficult to interpolate this new material without endangering intelligibility.... An additional reason for reticence is the sheer bulk of the material accumulated along the above-mentioned lines of research. Therefore, the course of action adopted here has been merely to add an Appendix surveying some main features of the intermediate period. As for the main text, only a few errors and misprints have been removed, most of them pointed out by Piet Rodenburg.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 03B45
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 03C99
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 03-01
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 03-02
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 03A05
zbMATH DE Number: 54276
zbMATH Keywords: temporal logic
zbMATH Keywords: logic of time
zbMATH Keywords: ontology
zbMATH Keywords: models
zbMATH Keywords: language
zbMATH Keywords: philosophy
author: Johan van Benthem
MaRDI profile type: Publication
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 54276