All the world's a stage

Sider, Theodore

doi:10.1080/00048409612347421

Cited by 235 publications

(95 citation statements)

References 21 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…And I do not see any reason to think that stable predicates cannot express intrinsic properties, despite the extra flexibility build into their truth-conditions. 38 See in particular Sider (1996a), who despite defending stage theory is particularly concerned about this point. 39 See Field (1974) for an example of this Quinean approach.…”

Section: Counting Rabbitsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…39 See Field (1974) for an example of this Quinean approach. Sider (1996a) endorses re-interpretation of identity for particular 'counting' contexts. 40 It is not obvious that counting by = itself will straightforwardly deliver bad results, once we factor in the tense and aspect within counting statements.…”

Section: Counting Rabbitsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Stage theoretic semantics reflects the exdurance theory of persistence advocated by Sider (1996aSider ( , 2001a and Hawley (2001).…”

Section: Stage Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…10 In the literature on theories of persistence, semantic theories have been developed that suit our purposes exactly. I will be appealing to the basic semantic framework of the perdurance theory of persistence-"worm theory", and the semantic framework of what Haslanger (2003) calls the exdurance theory of persistence-the "stage theory" advocated by Sider (1996aSider ( , 2001a and Hawley (2001). For terminological convenience, I use 'perdurance' and 'exdurance' for the metaphysical theories of what it takes for an ordinary object to persist through time; I will use 'worm theory' and 'stage theory' to refer to associated semantic views.…”

Section: Evans and Fodor Against The Gavagai Argumentmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 3 more Smart Citations

Gavagai again

Williams

2007

Synthese

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Quine (1960, ch.2) claims that there are a variety of equally good schemes for translating or interpreting ordinary talk. 'Rabbit' might be taken to divide its reference over rabbits, over temporal slices of rabbits, or undetached parts of rabbits, without significantly affecting which sentences get classified as true and which as false. This is the basis of his famous 'argument from below' to the conclusion that there can be no fact of the matter as to how reference is to be divided. Putative counterexamples to Quine's claim have been put forward in the past (see especially Evans, 1975;Fodor, 1993), and various patches have been suggested (e.g. Wright, 1997). One lacuna in this literature is that one does not find any detailed presentation of what exactly these interpretations are supposed to be.Drawing on contemporary literature on persistence, the present paper sets out detailed semantic treatments for fragments of English, whereby predicates such as 'rabbit' divide their reference over four-dimensional continuants (Quine's rabbits), instantaneous temporal slices of those continuants (Quine's rabbit-slices) and the simple elements which compose those slices (undetached rabbit parts) respectively. Once we have the systematic interpretations on the table, we can get to work evaluating them. * Thanks to

show abstract

Section: Counting Rabbitsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Counting Rabbitsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Stage theoretic semantics reflects the exdurance theory of persistence advocated by Sider (1996aSider ( , 2001a and Hawley (2001).…”

Section: Stage Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Evans and Fodor Against The Gavagai Argumentmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 2 more Smart Citations

Gavagai again

Williams

2007

Synthese

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…But this would be to neglect that the world-tube view is not the only interpretation of transtemporal identity which can cope with branching. Since 1996 there has become available Ted Sider's 'stage theory' which can embrace the idea of continuant identity through branching without involving the concept of multiple utterance (Sider, 1996(Sider, , 2001). According to stage theory persons are stages, not aggregates of stages, and so any utterance at a time has a token which is associated with the unique body, itself a stage, which is the body of that person at that time.…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%