“Tense and Reality”
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“Tense and Reality” is a philosophical work by Kit Fine that develops an influential and technically sophisticated account of tense, modality, and the metaphysics of time.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tense and Reality | 1 |
| “Tense and Reality” canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11850458 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: “Tense and Reality” Context triple: [Kit Fine, hasWritten, “Tense and Reality”]
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A.
“The Reality of the Past”
“The Reality of the Past” is a philosophical essay by Michael Dummett that examines how statements about the past can have determinate truth-values and what this implies for realism and the nature of time.
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B.
“Truth and Meaning”
“Truth and Meaning” is a seminal philosophical essay by Michael Dummett that develops a theory of meaning grounded in the conditions for a sentence’s truth.
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C.
"The Anxious Object"
"The Anxious Object" is a critical work by art critic Harold Rosenberg that examines modern art’s shifting meanings and the psychological tensions embedded in contemporary artistic practice.
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D.
The Dance of Reality
The Dance of Reality is a surreal, autobiographical film by Alejandro Jodorowsky that blends magical realism, philosophy, and personal memory to explore his childhood and spiritual worldview.
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E.
“Of Experience”
“Of Experience” is the final and one of the most reflective essays in Michel de Montaigne’s *Essays*, in which he meditates on the limits of human knowledge and the primacy of lived, personal experience.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: “Tense and Reality” Target entity description: “Tense and Reality” is a philosophical work by Kit Fine that develops an influential and technically sophisticated account of tense, modality, and the metaphysics of time.
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A.
“The Reality of the Past”
“The Reality of the Past” is a philosophical essay by Michael Dummett that examines how statements about the past can have determinate truth-values and what this implies for realism and the nature of time.
-
B.
“Truth and Meaning”
“Truth and Meaning” is a seminal philosophical essay by Michael Dummett that develops a theory of meaning grounded in the conditions for a sentence’s truth.
-
C.
"The Anxious Object"
"The Anxious Object" is a critical work by art critic Harold Rosenberg that examines modern art’s shifting meanings and the psychological tensions embedded in contemporary artistic practice.
-
D.
The Dance of Reality
The Dance of Reality is a surreal, autobiographical film by Alejandro Jodorowsky that blends magical realism, philosophy, and personal memory to explore his childhood and spiritual worldview.
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E.
“Of Experience”
“Of Experience” is the final and one of the most reflective essays in Michel de Montaigne’s *Essays*, in which he meditates on the limits of human knowledge and the primacy of lived, personal experience.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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philosophical work ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
analyze the metaphysical structure of temporal reality
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clarify the relationship between tense and modality ⓘ provide a technically sophisticated account of tense ⓘ |
| author | Kit Fine ⓘ |
| discusses |
modal operators
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ontological commitments of tense ⓘ structure of temporal reality ⓘ temporal operators ⓘ truth conditions for tensed sentences ⓘ |
| field |
metaphysics
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philosophical logic ⓘ philosophy of time ⓘ |
| genre | academic philosophy ⓘ |
| hasNotableConcept |
distinction between tense and modality
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fine-grained propositions about time ⓘ hyperintensionality in tense and modality ⓘ metaphysical realism about tense ⓘ non-standard tense logic ⓘ tenserelational view of time ⓘ |
| hasPerspectiveOn |
A-theory of time
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B-theory of time ⓘ
linked to:
The Tenseless Theory of Time
eternalism ⓘ modal realism ⓘ possible worlds semantics ⓘ presentism ⓘ |
| hasReputationFor |
influence in metaphysics of modality
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influence in philosophy of time ⓘ technical sophistication ⓘ |
| influenced |
contemporary debates on the metaphysics of time
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philosophical theories of tense ⓘ work on hyperintensional semantics ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
analytic metaphysics
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modal logic ⓘ tense logic ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainTopic |
metaphysics of time
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modality ⓘ tense ⓘ |
| philosophicalTradition | analytic philosophy ⓘ |
| workOf | Kit Fine ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: “Tense and Reality” Description of subject: “Tense and Reality” is a philosophical work by Kit Fine that develops an influential and technically sophisticated account of tense, modality, and the metaphysics of time.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
“In Defense of Three-Dimensionalism”
linked to: “Tense and Reality”