Aristotle’s Sea Battle, Excluded Middle and Bivalence

Autor: Alba Massolo
Jazyk: English<br />Spanish; Castilian<br />French<br />Portuguese
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, Vol 28, Iss 1 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1808-1711
DOI: 10.5007/1808-1711.2024.e96708
Popis: In this paper, I present a formal reconstruction of the classical argument for fatalism set forth by Aristotle in On Interpretation 9. From there, I expose two different formal solutions for avoiding the unwanted conclusion based on the traditional interpretation of Aristotle’s rejection of the Principle of Bivalence: On the one hand, Łukasiewicz's three-valued logic and, on the other hand, supervaluation semantics. I also address some criticisms made against these two proposals. To finish, I remark on some alternative interpretations of Aristotle’s intentions maintaining that the Stagirite philosopher rejected fatalism without abandoning the Principle of Bivalence.
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