As common expressions in natural language, sentences with tense and aspect play a very important role. There are many ways to encode their contributions to meaning, but I believe their function is best understood as exhibiting relations among related eventualities (events and states). Accordingly, contra other efforts to explain tense and aspect by appeal to temporal logics or interval logics, I believe the most basic and correct way to explain tense and aspect is to articulate these relations between eventualities. Building (...) on these ideas, I will characterize a formal semantics – Event-State Semantics (ESS) – which differs from all formal semantics based on temporal logics; in particular, one with which sentences with tense and aspect can be adequately explained, including molecular sentences and those with adverbial clauses. (shrink)

本书以辩证唯物主义和历史唯物主义为指导,探索了人的本质、人生使命、人生需要、人生目的、人生理想、人生信仰、人生价值、人生态度、人生成才道路、人生生活方式、人生评价等基本问题以及生于死、爱于憎、得于失等 10对基本范畴。.