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The object of chronological logic — ‘tense logic’ or ‘change logic’ as it has also been called by various authors — is to systematize reasoning with propositions that have a temporalized copula. Such propositions do not involve the timeless ‘is’ (or ‘are’) of the mathematicians’ ‘3 is a prime’, but rather envisage an explicitly temporal condition: ‘Bob is sitting’, ‘Robert was present’, ‘Mary will have been informed’. In this area, we have to do with statements involving ‘time talk’ in which some essential reference to the Before-After relationship or the Past-Present-Future relationship is at issue, and the ideas of succession change and constancy enter in. Chronological logic seeks to provide the linguistic and inferential apparatus for exact discourse and rigorous reasoning in this sphere.
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Rescher, N. (1968). Chronological Logic. In: Topics in Philosophical Logic. Synthese Library, vol 17. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3546-9_12
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