The End is Near: Grim Reapers and Endless Futures.
José Benardete developed a famous paradox involving a beginningless set of items each member of which satisfies some predicate just in case no earlier member satisfies it. The Grim Reaper version of this paradox has recently been employed in favour of various finitist metaphysical theses, ranging fr...
| Publicado en: | Mind (0026-4423) Vol. 133; no. 532; pp. 1057 - 1078 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Oct2024
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