Epictetus

The puzzle of the Sea Battle ultimately functions as a counterexample or exception to the principle of bivalence. The problem is as follows: suppose somebody states the following proposition, “There will be a Sea Battle tomorrow.” According to bivalence, this proposition must either be true or false. For, if it were to lack a truth-value, there is a logical gap, and if it’s both true and false, there lies a contradiction. By denying a truth-value to the proposition, one denies bivalence, but…

not yet, but inevitably will. Works Cited The Panchatantra. Translated by Arthur W. Ryder, University of Chicago Press, 1925. Epicurus. “Epicurus to Menoeceus.” The Stoic and Epicurean Philosophers: The Complete Extant Writings of Epicurus, Epictetus, Lucretius, Marcus Aurelius. Edited by Whitney J. Oates and translated by Cyril Bailey, Random House, 1940, 30-33. Apuleius. The Transformations of Lucius, Otherwise Known as The Golden Ass. Translated by Robert Graves, Farrar, Straus and…

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