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“Sextus Empiricus’ Fourth Conditional and Containment Logic” Yale Weiss (CUNY) 2:00 pm
“Sextus Empiricus’ Fourth Conditional and Containment Logic” Yale Weiss (CUNY) @ CUNY Grad Center, rm 8203
Mar 8 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
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In a famous passage from Outlines of Pyrrhonism, Sextus Empiricus presents four different accounts of the conditional in increasing strength. Contemporary analogues have been identified (subject to various degrees of controversy) for the first three, but the last, which even fails to satisfy A>A, has proved elusive. In this talk, I discuss ways of modeling this heterodox conditional. Taking a cue from Sextus, I regard the characteristic feature of this conditional as one of proper[...]
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