The Logic of Impossible Scenarios in Hurtado de Mendoza’s Tractatus de Trinitate
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Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1163/15685349-05904003" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1163/15685349-05904003</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685349-05904003" target="_blank" >10.1163/15685349-05904003</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The Logic of Impossible Scenarios in Hurtado de Mendoza’s Tractatus de Trinitate
Original language description
Since the late thirteenth century, the counterfactual Filioque debate, i.e., the question whether the Son and the Holy Spirit were distinct persons in the Trinity if the Holy Spirit only proceeded from the Father and not also from the Son, was an interesting context for developing the methodology of extreme thought experiments and the logic of conditionals with impossible antecedents and paradoxes of implication. In the mid-1620s, Puente Hurtado de Mendoza (1578-1641) introduced a strongly critical approach towards the scientific merits of positing certain types of impossible scenarios while joining this traditional debate in his Tractatus de Trinitate. He argued that the counterfactual Filioque problem is (at best) a needless detour and (at worst) either shifts to unreliable discussions of properties of fictional entities or is outright trivial for logical reasons. The present article offers a modern edition of the ninth disputation of Hurtado’s Tractatus de Trinitate and analyses logical and methodological aspects of Hurtado’s position in the counterfactual Filioque debate.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA20-05855S" target="_blank" >GA20-05855S: Scholastic physics in the era of the scientific revolution</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Vivarium
ISSN
0042-7543
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
59
Issue of the periodical within the volume
4
Country of publishing house
NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS
Number of pages
36
Pages from-to
324-359
UT code for WoS article
000721176600002
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85120583598