Necessity or Contingency?

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The Master Argument and its Philosophical Solutions

Автор: Jules Vuilleman

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Издател: Centre for the Study of Language & Information

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The Master Argument, recorded by Epictetus, indicates that Diodorus had deduced a contradiction from...

Информация за книгата

Автор

Jules Vuilleman

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С твърди корици

Издадена

1996

страници

250

EAN

9781881526865

ISBN

1881526860

Enbook ID

05012590

Издател

Centre for the Study of Language & Information

Теглоt

572

Размери

152 x 228 x 24

Пълно описание

The Master Argument, recorded by Epictetus, indicates that Diodorus had deduced a contradiction from the conjoint assertion of three propositions. The Argument, which has to do with necessity and contingency and therefore with freedom, has attracted the attention of logicians above all. There have been many attempts at reconstructing it in logical terms, without excessive worry about historical plausibility and with the foregone conclusion that it was sophistic since it directly imperilled our common sense notion of freedom. This text takes exception to recent tradition, translating the propositions into logical terms. The propositions figuring in The Master Argument are interpreted in terms of temporal modal logic where both the modalities and the statements they govern have chronological indices. This means that the force of the argument comes not from purely logical or modal considerations, but from our experience of time.

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