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Reflections on temporal and modal logic

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  • Richard L. Epstein Advanced Reasoning Forum

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https://doi.org/10.12775/LLP.2014.015

Keywords

temporal logic, modal logic

Abstract

The most popular method of incorporating time into a formal logic is based on the work of Arthur Prior. It treats tenses as operators on sentences. In this essay I show a serious problem with that approach, a confusion of scheme versus proposition, which makes any system built in that way incoherent. I will compare how other formal logics deal with the scheme versus proposition distinction and find that only for formal modal logics does the same problem arise. I then compare Prior’s approach to other ways of taking time into account in formal logics.

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Epstein, R. L., Logic, Language, and the World, vol. 2 “Time and Space”. Advanced Reasoning Forum to appear 2016 (previously available as part of a draft called “The Internal Structure of Predicates and Names with an Analysis of Reasoning about Process”, http://www.AdvancedReasoningForum.org ).

Epstein, R. L., and E. Buitrago-Díaz, “A propositional logic of temporal connectives”, Logic and Logical Philosophy (2014). DOI: 10.12775/LLP.2014.015

Prior, A., Time and Modality, Oxford University Press, 1957.

Prior, A., “Changes in events and changes in things” (preprint). Reprinted: pages 35–46 in The Philosophy of Time, R. Le Poidevin and M. MacBeath (eds.), Oxford University Press, 1993. Also reprinted: pages 7–19 in Papers on Time and Tense by Arthur Prior, Oxford University Press, 2003.

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2014-08-02

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EPSTEIN, Richard L. Reflections on temporal and modal logic. Logic and Logical Philosophy. Online. 2 August 2014. Vol. 24, no. 1, p. 111–139. [Accessed 7 July 2025]. DOI 10.12775/LLP.2014.015.
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