The reality and its signs: the propositions about the future contingent and the divine predestination in Guilherme de Ockhams logic / A realidade e seus signos: as proposições sobre o futuro contingente e a predestinação divina na lógica de Guilherme de Ockham

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2006

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The "William of Ockhams Exposition on the Perihermeniasof Aristotle (i.e., the Aristotelian De Interpretatione)" brings a problem "to the truth and to the theologians": according to Aristotle, the hypothetical proposition which contains a pair of contradictories related to the same future contingent thing is neither determinately true nor determinately false - once none of their contradictories are neither determinately true nor determinately false. Therefore, before that thing happens, nobody can know with certainty the truth or the falsity of any proposition about future contingent things. Theologians, however, cannot accept this conclusion: the faith teaches that God knows, with certainty and from eternity, which part of that pair of contradictories is determinately true or determinately false. In Ockhams view, the solution of this argument seems to pass by a special approach of the logical view of this question and by the assumption of limits for the human knowledge. Its on the analysis of this solution that the present work is related.

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futuros contingentes ockham contingency logic future contingents predestination ockham lógica predestinação contingência

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