Indeterministic Temporal Logic

• Authors: Kazimierz Trzęsicki
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The questions od determinism, causality, and freedom have been the main philosophical problems debated since the beginning of temporal logic. The issue of the logical value of sentences about the future was stated by Aristotle in the famous tomorrow sea-battle passage. The question has inspired Łukasiewicz’s idea of many-valued logics and was a motive of A. N. Prior’s considerations about the logic of tenses. In the scheme of temporal logic there are different solutions to the problem. In the paper we consider indeterministic temporal logic based on the idea of temporal worlds and the relation of accessibility between them.

Keywords

EN

temporal logic; determinism; causality; freedom

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 42
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 139-162

Dates

published

2015-09-01

online

2015-11-26

Contributors

author

Kazimierz Trzęsicki

• University of Bialystok

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/slgr-2015-0034