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The sea battle and the master argument : Aristotle and Diodorus Cronus on the metaphysics of the future / by Richard Gaskin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gaskin, Richard, 1960-
- Series:
- Quellen und Studien zur Philosophie
- Quellen und Studien zur Philosophie ; Bd. 40
- Quellen und Studien zur Philosophie , 0344-8142 ; 40
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aristotle. De interpretatione--9.
- Aristotle.
- Diodorus Cronus, active 4th century B.C.
- Diodorus Cronus.
- Future (Logic)--Early works to 1800.
- Future (Logic).
- Fate and fatalism--Early works to 1800.
- Fate and fatalism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (420 p.)
- Edition:
- Reprint 2010
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W. de Gruyter, 1995.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Sea Battle and the Master Argument: Aristotle and Diodorus Cronus on the Metaphysics of the Future (Quellen und Studien zur Philosophie)
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- 1 Preliminaries: Terminology and Notation
- 2 Aristotle and the Future Sea Battle: Introduction
- 3 The Opening Moves
- 4 The Fatalist's Arguments
- 5 Aristotle's Response: a First Approximation
- 6 Bivalence and Determinism
- 7 The Worn-out Cloak and the Principle of Plenitude
- 8 From Truth to Necessity: the Theory
- 9 From Truth to Necessity: Aristotelian Texts
- 10 Simple and Hypothetical Necessity
- 11 From Truth to Necessity: Peripatetic Texts
- 12 The Commentators' Interpretation of De Interpretatione 9
- 13 Some Formalities
- 14 Metaphysics E.3 on Causal Determinism: a Comparison
- 15 Reconstructing the Master Argument of Diodorus Cronus: Introduction
- 16 Gassendi's Proposal: a First Attempt
- 17 The Reconstructions of Zeller and Hintikka
- 18 Prior's Reconstruction
- 19 The Consistency and Plausibility Constraints
- 20 Barreau's 'Stoic' and 'Diodorean' Reconstructions
- 21 Vuillemin's Reconstruction
- 22 The Proposed Reconstruction
- 23 The Responses of Cleanthes and Chrysippus
- 24 Diodorus and Cicero
- 25 Diodorus and Aristotle
- Appendix 1: Some Arabic and Medieval Interpretations of De Interpretatione 9
- Appendix 2: Alexander on Foreknowledge and Contingency: DeFato 30-1
- Appendix 3: [Alexander] Quaestio 1.4
- Bibliography
- Index of Passages Cited from Ancient Authors
- Index of Arabic and Medieval Authors
- Index of Modern Authors
- General Index
- Backmatter
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)
- ISBN:
- 9783110866346
- 311086634X
- OCLC:
- 843635390
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