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On Davidson’s Master Argument

Respublica Literaria
The article discusses one of Donald Davidson’s arguments in defense of the causal approach, according to which the explanation of actions through reasons is a kind of causal explanation. Davidson insists that the qualification of certain desires and beliefs as reasons is not a sufficient condition for explaining an action. In order to really explain an
Alexander Sanzhenakov
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Berkeley's Master Argument

The Philosophical Review, 1974
Philonous: ". . . If you can conceive it possible for any mixture or combination of qualities, or any sensible object whatever, to exist without the mind, then I will grant it actually to be so." Hylas: "If it comes to that the point will soon be decided.
A. Gallois
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SENTENTIALISM AND BERKELEY'S MASTER ARGUMENT

The Philosophical Quarterly, 2005
Sententialism is the view that intensional positions in natural languages occur within clausal complements only. According to proponents of this view, intensional transitive verbs such as ‘want’, ‘seek’ or ‘resemble’ are actually propositional attitude verbs in disguise.
Z. Szabó
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Chrysippus’ counterargument against the Master Argument: a reappraisal

SATS, 2018
Abstract It is widely held that as a nego suppositum, Chrysippus’ response to Diodorus Cronus’ Master Argument is that the impossible “this man has died” follows from the possible “Dio has died”. A principal claim of this article is that Chrysippus was not actually committed, against Diodorus, to the tenet that there are deductions and conditionals ...
Mauro Nasti De Vincentis
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Diodorus and prior and the master argument

Synthese, 1979
The Master Argument of the Megarian logician Diodorus Cronos, famous in antiquity,1 has received a considerable amount of attention in the past quarter century. On the one hand, its apparent use of tense-logic and its implications for modal logic have been a source of interest to modern philosophers,2 while on the other, historians of thought have ...
R. Mckirahan
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Chrysippus’S response to diodorus’S master argument

History and Philosophy of Logic, 1992
Chrysippus claims that some propositions perish. including some true conditionals whose consequent is impossible and antecedent is possible, to which he appeals against Diodorus’s Master Argument. On the standard interpretation. perished propositions lack truth values.
Harry A. Ide
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The Tense Logic for Master Argument in Prior’s Reconstruction

Studia Logica, 2009
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Jarmużek, Tomasz, Pietruszczak, Andrzej
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A Three-Valued Approach to the Master Argument

2011 41st IEEE International Symposium on Multiple-Valued Logic, 2011
The Master Argument due to Diodorus Cronos claims that nothing is possible that neither is true nor will be true and that therefore every (present) possibility must be realized at a present or future time. Unfortunately, it leads to logical determinism. In this paper, based on Prior's insight, a three-valued approach to the Master Argument is presented
Seiki Akama, Yasunori Nagata
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A Note on Boghossian's Master Argument

Philosophical Issues, 1995
In his paper in this volume, Crispin Wright cites an argument proffered by Paul Boghossian in his "The Status of Content" which puports to establish that the application of non-factualism to content discourse demonstrates the incoherence of non-factualism. Wright is sympathetic to Boghossian's conclusion, but not to his line of argument (see n.
R. Gibson
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The Master Argument of MacIntyre’s After Virtue

2003
In September of 1995 the Associated Press released a wire photo showing Russian lawmakers of both genders in a punching brawl during a session of the Duma, Russia's lower house of parliament.' Is this behavior an ethnic idiosyncrasy? Do only government officials duke it out over matters of great importance?
Brad J. Kallenberg
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