Necessity or Contingency?: The Master Argument and its Philosophical Solutions by Jules Vuilleman

Necessity or Contingency?: The Master Argument and its Philosophical Solutions by Jules Vuilleman

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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ISBN 13	9781881526858
ISBN 10	1881526852
Title	Necessity or Contingency?: The Master Argument and its Philosophical Solutions
Author	Jules Vuilleman
Series	Lecture Notes Ser
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	The Center for the Study of Language and Information Publications
Year published	1996-03-29
Number of pages	250
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