num_pages: 312
description: The subject of Time has a wide intellectual appeal across different dis ciplines. This has shown in the variety of reactions received from readers of the first edition of the present Book. Many have reacted to issues raised in its philosophical discussions while some have even solved a number of the open technical questions raised in the logical elaboration of the latter. These results will be recorded below at a more convenient place. In the seven years after the first publication there have been some noticeable newer developments in the logical study of Time and temporal expressions. As far as Temporal Logic proper is concerned it seems fair to say that these amount to an increase in coverage and sophistication rather than further break-through innovation. In fact perhaps the most significant sources of new activity have been the applied areas of Linguistics and Computer Science (including Artificial Intelligence) where many intriguing new ideas have appeared presenting further challenges to temporal logic. Now since this Book has a rather tight composition it would have been difficult to interpolate this new material without endangering intelligibility.
language: English
title: The Logic of Time: A Model-Theoretic Investigation into the Varieties of Temporal Ontology and Temporal Discourse
publisher: Springer