Indivisible Temporal Boundaries from Aristophanes until Today
This paper provides a short historical and systematic survey of parameters, problems, and proposals concerning the theoretical treatment of indivisible temporal boundaries throughout the ages. A very early trace of thinking about them is identified in Aristophanes’ comedy The Clouds. The approach of...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Brill
2017
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Vivarium
Year: 2017, Volume: 55, Issue: 1/3, Pages: 9-21 |
IxTheo Classification: | TA History VA Philosophy VB Hermeneutics; Philosophy |
Further subjects: | B
time atoms
instants
moment of change
Aristophanes
medieval logic
vagueness
continuum
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Summary: | This paper provides a short historical and systematic survey of parameters, problems, and proposals concerning the theoretical treatment of indivisible temporal boundaries throughout the ages. A very early trace of thinking about them is identified in Aristophanes’ comedy The Clouds. The approach of logicians in the late Middle Ages is placed in a broad context. Links of this topic to the issues of vagueness, modality, space and quantized time are discussed. |
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ISSN: | 1568-5349 |
Contains: | In: Vivarium
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685349-12341341 |