What is the tense of futur proche?
The futur proche (nnear future) tense describes what is going to happen with certainty. To form the futur proche, use the present tense of aller (to go) plus an infinitive. To make it negative and say something is not going to happen, put ne … pas or n’… pas around the conjugated verb aller.
Why did Reichenbach characterize conventions?
One puzzle about Reichenbach’s view of conventions is why characterizing them remained important to him, since they are, in his mature view, only a feature of the reconstruction of a theory, not an intrinsic logical or semantical feature of any proposition.
What influence did Reichenbach's comments have on linguistics?
Kamp (2013) lays out in some detail the enormous influence in linguistics of Reichenbach’s short comments in Elements of Symbolic Logic (pp. 289–298) that recognized the distinction between speech time, reference time and event time in the logical analysis of tense.
What is Reichenbach's concern in the direction of time?
Reichenbach did not doubt that we have a definite psychological separation of time into past and future, corresponding respectively to events that can and cannot be remembered. His concern in The Direction of Time is for a physical basis for the same asymmetry: The problem which the physicist faces can be formulated as follows.
Be going to and will: a pragmatic account