On the completeness of non-philonian stoic logic
Milne, Peter; Milne, Peter; Department of Philosophy, University of Edinburgh
Журнал:
History and Philosophy of Logic
Дата:
1995
Аннотация:
The majority of formal accounts attribute to Stoic logicians the classical truth-functional understanding of the material conditional and exclusive disjunction.These interpretations were disputed, some Stoic logicians favouring modal and/or temporal analyses; moreover, what comes down to us of Stoic logic fails to secure the classical interpretations on purely formal grounds.It is therefore of some interest to see how the non-classical interpretations fare. I argue that the strongest logic we have good grounds to attribute to Stoic logicians is not complete with respect to the non-classical interpretations of disjunction and the conditional
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