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It is interesting to consider the use of propositional quantifiers in tensed contexts, since this device substantially augments the sphere of statable tense-logical theses. For in the absence of a device for explicit propositional quantification, we can only assert theses that have a tacit initial string of universal quantifiers, as, for example,
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This discussion of the theses (EC) and (ET) should be compared with A. N. Prior, Time and Change, Ratio, vol. 10 (1968), pp. 173–177.
J. M. E. Mctaggart, The Nature of Existence (two vols., Cambridge, 1921, 1927), vol. I, p. 11.
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Rescher, N., Urquhart, A. (1971). Propositional Quantification in Tensed Statements. In: Temporal Logic. LEP Library of Exact Philosophy, vol 3. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-7664-1_19
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