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In <i>Walter Chatton on Future Contingents</i>, Jon Bornholdt presents the first full-length translation, commentary, and analysis of the various attempts by Chatton (14th century C.E.) to solve the ancient problem of the status and significance of statements about the future. At issue is the danger of so-called logical determinism: if it is true now that a human will perform a given action tomorrow, is that human truly free to perform or refrain from performing that action? Bornholdt shows that
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- Author
- Jon Bornholdt; Walter Chatton
- Publisher
- Koninklijke Brill N.V.
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9789004338340
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Religious, Philosophy
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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