Benardete Paradoxes, Causal Finitism, and the Unsatisfiable Pair Diagnosis.
We examine two competing solutions to Benardete paradoxes: causal finitism, according to which nothing can have infinitely many causes, and the unsatisfiable pair diagnosis (UPD), according to which such paradoxes are logically impossible and no metaphysical thesis need be adopted to avoid them. We...
| Publicado en: | Mind (0026-4423) Vol. 134; no. 534; pp. 397 - 422 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Apr2025
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