caa a22 4500 469102594 CHVBK 20180323133048.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e19920401xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00668393 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00668393 Markosian Ned Department of Philosophy, University of New Hampshire, 03824-3574, Durham, NH, USA aut On language and the passage of time [Elektronische Daten] [Ned Markosian] Conclusion: In short, the situation regarding language and the passage of time is this. A person may consistently hold either of the two views concerning time's special treatment in our ordinary language, LP and LNP, provided that that person holds the appropriate view from among several semantical views available. Each of these different semantical views, in turn, can be consistently maintained in such a way that it is not susceptible to arguments from the other side, provided that these arguments do not appeal to metaphysical considerations. But of course advocates of either The Linguistic Argument For SPT or The Linguistic Argument Against SPT may not appeal to metaphysical claims in defense of either LNP or LP, since these allegedly linguistic theses are to be used in arguments designed to prove just such metaphysical claims. Moreover, if the different parties to the dispute between LP and LNP do appeal to metaphysical considerations, then they may be able to develop non-circular, non-question-begging arguments for their respective linguistic theses. What those metaphysical considerations might be, and what arguments might be developed from them, are important topics to be considered, but I will not consider them here. The point of this paper has been to show that those who wish to debate the question of whether time passes cannot settle the debate merely by discussing linguistic matters. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992 Philosophical Studies Kluwer Academic Publishers 66/1(1992-04-01), 1-26 0031-8116 66:1<1 1992 66 11098 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00668393 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00668393 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Markosian Ned Department of Philosophy, University of New Hampshire, 03824-3574, Durham, NH, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Philosophical Studies Kluwer Academic Publishers 66/1(1992-04-01), 1-26 0031-8116 66:1<1 1992 66 11098 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer