CORDIS Project
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The project investigates how medieval philosophers and scientists dealt with impossible entities and scenarios, exploring their implications for reasoning and knowledge. It aims to understand counterpossible reasoning and its relevance to contemporary discussions on fiction and imagination in epistemology.
Medieval philosophical and scientific language, for many centuries and across different traditions, has been overcrowded with entities and scenarios that are – or were thought to be – fictitious or utterly impossible.
These are entities like chimeras, flying men, golden mountains, but also atoms, infinite lines, bodies moving in a void space or at an infinite speed.
Incorporating these impossibilities in standard theories of inference, showing how impossible statements can be manageable through…
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