Title: Necessity or contingency : the master argument /
Authors: Vuillemin, Jules
Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Information,
Year: 1996
Subjects: Diodorus Cronus,; Necessity (Philosophy) History.; Contingency (Philosophy) History.; Philosophy, Ancient.
Contents: 1. The Master Argument. On the Shortcomings of Some Past Interpretations. Conditions to be Fulfilled by any Acceptable Interpretation -- 2. Reconstruction of the Master Argument -- 3. A System of Logical Fatalism: Diodorus Cronus -- 4. Eternal Return and Cyclical Time: Cleanthes' Solution -- 5. Freedom as an Element of Fate: Chrysippus -- 6. Towards Rehabilitating Opinion as Probable Knowledge of Contingent Things. Aristotle -- 7. Epicurus and Intuitionism -- 8. Carneades and the Skeptical Nominalism of the Modalities -- 9. Platonism and Conditional Necessity -- 10. Epilogue.