@misc{Lexicon of Arguments,
title = {Quotation from: Lexicon of Arguments – Concepts - Ed. Martin Schulz, 28 Mar 2024},
author = {Geach,Peter},
subject = {Time},
note = {I 303
Time/GeachVsQuine: Vs time cuts, Vs "hours-thick sclices".
>four dimensionalism).
Space and time are not equal axes - otherwise temperature curves would be the same as "world lines" in the "temperature-time continuum".
It is not true that quantifiers can only be applied to four-dimensional space-time points.
((s) This is not what Quine asserts: "Sometimes"/Quine: "there are some points of time...">Logical form/Quine.)
I 314
Space/time/Geach: Space and time are radically different: that the expression "between" is used in both, is misleading - spatial order: affects individual objects. - Temporal order: what is ordered here is represented by complex sentences.
Geach: in the temporal, ever more complex structures can be built, not in the spatial. - e.g. "x is between (y is over w) and z" makes no sense.
I 316
Time/Modal logic/Geach: I am convinced that the basic time determinations "before", "after", etc. belong to the formal logic.
I think they have to do with "possible" and "necessary".
>Possibility, >Necessity, >Modal logic, >Modalities.
One has claimed that a world in which the modus ponens no longer applies can be described as a world in which the time is two-dimensional or the past can be changed.
If the basic truths about time are logical, then a differently temporal world would be a chimera.
>Space/Geach, >Time, >Spacetime.},
note = { Gea I P.T. Geach Logic Matters Oxford 1972
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