摘要：The headline question is a pivotal problem of a book entitled ‘On the SeaBattle Tomorrow That May Not Happen’ [5].1 The aim of the monograph is to reconstruct and analyze the reasoning of the Megarian philosopher and logician, Diodorus Cronus. Unfortunately, the knowledge about his considerations is highly uncertain and fragmentary, nevertheless, it can be inferred from some, not only historical sources that Diodorus Cronus have plunged into a polemic with Aristotle. Stagyrite announced the problem of the logical value of sentences about the future by raising a question that became the inspiration for the book’s title: Will be a sea-battle tomorrow? In response, Diodorus Cronus proposed a reasoning that went down in history as the Master Argument. The author reconstructs its form by means of modern logic in five different ways. The polemics between philosophers resulted from their approaches – Aristotle as an indeterminist argued that sentences about future are not necessary and moreover he adopted the principle of bivalence. In contrast to him, Diodorus Cronus approach has been regarded as deterministic. One of the fundamental issues in the monograph is to analyze whether Master Argument factually forces the linear structure of time, which is a differentiator of determinism. Although Diodorus Cronus reasoning is a major problem of philosophy that has been studied multiple times, e.g. by such philosopher as Jakko Hintikka [3], the book under review provides a new fresh approach to the problem. Even though already existing reconstructions of the problem appear in the book, the author analyzes them in an inventive way.
其他摘要：This note provides a review of the book 'On the Sea-Battle Tomorrow That May Not Happen' by Tomasz Jarmużek.
关键词：Aristotle;future contingents;structure of time
其他关键词：Aristotle; future contingents; structure of time
