Asseverative ciscourse and contingency in Aristotle: The sea battle tomorrow in De Interpretatione 9 / Enunciado asseverativo e contingência em Aristóteles: A batalha naval amanhã em De Interpretatione 9
AUTOR(ES)
Paulo Fernando Tadeu Ferreira
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
2009
RESUMO
Aristotles refusal of causal determinism in Metaphysics E3/K8 by means of the thesis that not every event is necessitated entails (given the conception put forward in Categories 5 that a proposition is either true or false according to its either corresponding or not corresponding at a given time to a state of affairs at that same given time) his refusal of logical determinism in De Interpretatione 9 by means of the thesis that propositions about future contingent events are neither true nor false ex ante facto but become either true or false afterwards. Aristotles commitment to non-necessitated events stems, it is argued, from his commitment to the notion of deliberation. This work includes a translation, with commentary, of De Interpretatione 9.
ASSUNTO(S)
futuros contingentes future contingents enunciado asseverativo determinism bivalence asseverative discourse bivalência determinismo
