Comments on Transient Truths: An Essay in the Metaphysics of Propositions

Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 58 (6):619-626 (2015)
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This paper distinguishes two importantly different kinds of temporalism. According to one version, the truth value of propositions is parameterized to times. According to a second version, propositions have a truth value simpliciter, but some propositions that are true will be or were false. I point out that the second version is neglected in Berit Brogaard's Transient Truths, and explore whether there are good arguments against it implicit in that work. I also critically engage with various arguments presented by Brogaard against semantic eternalism.

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John Hawthorne
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