Tenses and temporality in Reichenbach's thought
pp. 217-228
in: Flavia Santoianni (ed), The concept of time in early twentieth-century philosophy, Berlin, Springer, 2016Abstract
Elements of Symbolic Logic by Hans Reichenbach provides the first analysis of tenses from a translinguistic, transgrammatical, transcultural logical viewpoint. However, the author does not address the problem of relations between the tenses and temporality, whose investigation is devoted to physics. Despite the brilliant discovery, an irreconcilable gap between the two different epistemological perspectives emerges at a glance. Where Reichenbach stopped is precisely where one must start from to continue the exploration on the exterminated continent that one can glimpse behind his study
