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On Jan Łukasiewicz’s many-valued logic and his criticism of determinism

Philosophia Scientiæ, 2011
The article deals with Jan Łukasiewicz’s thesis that the truth or falsity of some propositions about the future—future contingents—entails determinism.
Dariusz Łukasiewicz
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Futuros contingentes: história de uma outra batalha

Revista de Filosofia Antiga, 2021
The problem of future contingents is examined here through the vantage point of another controversy, the one over which answer Aristotle should be credited with. Two answers are attributed to Aristotle. According to the first one, which is nowadays often
Marco Zingano
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Divine Foreknowledge and Providence

TheoLogica, 2020
In this paper, we aim to examine the relationships between four solutions to the dilemma of divine foreknowledge and human freedom—theological determinism, Molinism, simple foreknowledge and open theism—and divine providence and theodicy.
Aldro Frigerio, Ciro De Florio
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What the Tortoise will say to Achilles – or “taking the traditional interpretation of the sea battle argument seriously”

Filosofia Unisinos, 2017
This dialogue between Achilles and the Tortoise – in the spirit of those of Carroll and Hofstadter – argues against the idea, identified with the “traditional” interpretation of Aristotle’s “sea battle argument”, that future contingents are an exception
Ramiro Peres
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Future Contingency and Classical Indeterminism [PDF]

Erkenntnis, 2021
AbstractA position that has been called ‘classical indeterminism’ has recently been developed in order to model vagueness: this approach appeals to an object-language ‘determinately’ operator, the semantics of which are defined in such a way as to preserve the principle of bivalence.
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Necessity and Determinism in Robert Grosseteste’s De libero arbitrio

Studia Humana, 2020
In this paper, the theory of necessity proposed by Robert Grosseteste is presented. After showing the wide range of various kinds of determination discussed by him (connected with: (1) one’s knowledge about the future, (2) predestination, (3) fate, (4 ...
Trepczyński Marcin
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The Relationship of the Kappelevites Command Staff with G. M. Semenov on the Basis of Memoir Sources [PDF]

Гуманитарный вектор, 2023
The article is devoted to the study of the issue of relations between ataman G. M. Semenov and senior officers of the remnants of the Kolchak armies who arrived in Transbaikalia in the early 1920.
Denis A. Taskin
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Buridan on Future Contingents

DoisPontos, 2023
The Medieval philosopher John Buridan (14th century) develops a complex kind of semantics based on the distinction between the context of utterance and the context of evaluation in order to establish the truth conditions of propositions. This article intends to analyze this semantics and, in particular, to understand its consequences with regard to ...
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Knowing Future Contingents

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011
This paper argues that we know the future by applying a recent solution of the problem of future contingents to knowledge attributions about the future. MacFarlane has put forward a version of assessment-context relativism that enables us to assign a truth value 'true' (or 'false') to future contingents such as There Will Be A Sea Battle Tomorrow. Here
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The study of the formation processes and signs of the likelihood of vaccination in priority contingents in various epidemic diseases (sociological research)

Журнал инфектологии, 2023
The purpose of the study: to determine the development of vaccination against infections associated with contingents in an epidemic crisis.Materials and methods: the method of a sociological survey of future workers and those vaccinated in different ...
E. A. Budnikova, O. I. Kubar, O. V. Iozefovich, S. M. Kharit   +3 more
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