LIN241H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Present Tense, If And Only If, Absolute Time And Space
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If john read dr. zh is true at some point in time, then john is reading dr. zh is true at some earlier point in time, and john will read dr. zh is true at an even earlier point. In our current system, we ignore tense: set theory has no tense o o. [[john is reading dr. zh]]m,c,g,w = 1 iff v(is reading) [[john read dr. zh]]m,c,g,w = 1 iff v(readpast) [[john will read dr. zh]]m,c,g,w = 1 iff v(will read) [[john is reading dr. zhivago]]m,c,g,w = [[pres]]m,c,g,w ([[john read dr zhivago]]m,c,g,w) [[john read dr. zhivago]]m,c,g,w = [[pst]]m,c,g,w ([[john read dr zhivago]]m,c,g,w) [[john will read dr. zhivago]]m,c,g,w = [[fut]]m,c,g,w ([[john read dr zhivago]]m,c,g,w) A tensed sentence is separable into tense and a sentence radical. The truth of a tensed sentence is evaluated at the time of utterance (ut) Must modify the basic model using events.
