Time and Tense

Dyke, Heather

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“…If all this is right, and language influences thought in this neo‐Whorfian way, then a possible explanation suggests itself as to why we think of time in tensed terms. I have argued elsewhere (Dyke, 2013, p. 337; see also Comrie, 1985) that all languages have some means of locating events by reference to one's own temporal location, even so‐called “tenseless” languages, such as Mandarin. Or, to put it another way, all languages have some means of locating events in the A‐series.…”

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Weakneo‐Whorfianismand the philosophy of time

Dyke

2021

Mind & Language

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According to a thesis I call the linguistic assumption, the structure of language is a guide to the fundamental nature of reality. It is deployed in the metaphysical debate over the nature of time. In that debate, it is more radical than the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, and should be rejected. A weak interpretation of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis makes the empirical claim that speakers of different languages experience, perceive, or think about aspects of the world differently. I survey recent experimental evidence that supports this hypothesis which, I argue, gives us further reason to reject the linguistic assumption.

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Section: Weak Neo‐whorfianismmentioning

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Weakneo‐Whorfianismand the philosophy of time

Dyke

2021

Mind & Language

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“…In making a case for her first claim, Dyke heavily relies on an excellent paper of hers from 2013 that we should have known and referenced, and would have referenced had we been aware of it (Dyke 2013). In that paper, she convincingly argues that we ought to distinguish two theses: first, that the tenses, or other deictic devices for locating things, events, states of affairs etc.…”

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Correia

Rosenkranz

2021

Disputatio

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In what follows, we will reply to the critical comments one by one in the order that seemed most natural to us, given the topics covered. Apart from the references section towards the end, our replies are conceived as pieces each of which can be read independently from any of the others (but not, of course, independently from the comments it responds to). We hope to have done justice to the critical points made by our commentators and to have come up with viable answers to the various challenges they raise.

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“…As indexical features of linguistic representations, tenses encode perspectival information about the temporal dimension, and in that they are analogous to spatial indexicals, which encode perspectival information about the spatial dimension. As elements of the representational content of the experience of the temporal dimension, tense represent the temporal dimension from a point of view that "moves" as time goes by, and are thus understood as containing a dynamic element 12 . My main point will be that -regardless of whether it is true or not that our experience represents the temporal dimension in a perspectival manner -it is not in virtue of perspectival elements that our experience has a dynamic flavour.…”

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Perspectival Tenses and Dynamic Tenses

Torrengo

2017

Erkenn

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As far as our experience goes, we live in a dynamic present. Those two phenomenal features of experience -presentness and dynamism -are obviously connected.However, how they are connected is not obvious at all. In this paper, I criticise the view according to which the former can explain the latter, which I call sophisticated representationalism. My criticism will be based on an ambiguity in the notion of tense found in the philosophical literature, that between the perspectival understanding and the dynamic understanding of tenses. The distinction is not just of independent interest, but it has a role in providing indirect evidence for the claim that the feeling of passage of time should be understood in non-representationalist terms.

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Time and Tense

Cited by 15 publications

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Weakneo‐Whorfianismand the philosophy of time

Weakneo‐Whorfianismand the philosophy of time

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Perspectival Tenses and Dynamic Tenses

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