TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tomasz Jarmużek
PY  - 2018
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783631760796
TI  - On the Sea Battle Tomorrow That May Not Happen
T2  - A Logical and Philosophical Analysis of the Master Argument
DO  - 10.3726/b14343
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1054943
N2  - This book is devoted to the problem of the Master Argument – a historical argument of the Greek philosopher Diodorus Cronus. Since the original argument was lost, many contemporary logicians have tried to recreate it, using modern tools of logic. The objective of Diodorus’ argument was to evidence the correctness of the temporarily defined modalities: necessity and probability. They took a deterministic form and challenged the indeterministic approach of Aristotle included in the Sea-Battle Tomorrow. In this study, the author shows that some of the reconstructions of the Master Argument allowed for the branched time structures. This is the crowning argument to prove that despite the acceptance of Diodorus’ notions, the Aristotelian Sea-Battle Tomorrow may still not happen, or may as well happen.
KW  - Determinism, Future contigents, Master Argument, Sea-Battle Tomorrow, Structure of time, Temporal logic
LA  - English
ER  -