Sentences about time

Philosophical Quarterly 37 (146):37-53 (1987)
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do not really ascribe A-properties. Tensed sentences or their tokens, it is argued, are logically equivalent to, or have the same meaning as, tenseless sentences about events, and thus possess the same reference as the tenseless sentences, viz., to events with B-relations. It would follow that time has only one aspect, the B-aspect. You can search..

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