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A Fresh Look at Aristotle, De interpretatione 9

26 October 2023
5:00 pm
San Francesco Complex - classroom 1

In De interpretatione 9 Aristotle argues that an unrestricted application of a certain logico-semantic principle to declarative sentences about the future leads to a kind of determinism or fatalism. I show that the principle at stake is the Principle of Bivalence and discuss the text and structure of Aristotle’s argument from this principle to determinism

 

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relatore: 
Francesco Ademollo, University of Florence
Units: 
PHIBOR