Open AccessThree paradoxes
Author(s) -
Vladan Djordjević
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
theoria
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2406-081X
pISSN - 0351-2274
DOI - 10.2298/theo0903005d
Subject(s) - equivocation , fatalism , counterexample , nothing , epistemology , argument (complex analysis) , philosophy , mathematical economics , mathematics , discrete mathematics , biochemistry , chemistry
Although it may seem that the three paradoxes I deal with in this paper have nothing in common, I believe that they all involve an equivocation of the same kind. The first is known as the 'direct argument', the second is one of the standard arguments for fatalism, and the third is McGee's counterexample to modus poenes