IMPOSSIBLE EVENTS AND THE KNOWABILITY PARADOX

• Authors: Jespersen Bjørn , Carrara Massimiliano
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This note disambiguates the predicate ‘is an unknowable event’ and shows how Transparent Intensional Logic interprets the sentences “Agent a is calculating the final decimal of π” and “Agent a has calculated the final decimal of π”. The knowability paradox is used to set the stage.

Keywords

EN

IMPOSSIBILITY; EVENT; KNOWABILITY PARADOX

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and Institute of Philosophy of Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic
• Journal: Organon F. medzinárodný časopis pre analytickú filozofiu
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 30
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 53 – 65

Contributors

author

Jespersen Bjørn

• University of Groningen, Faculty of Philosophy, Netherland

• https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1747-9428

author

Carrara Massimiliano

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3509-1585

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2023.30104