<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The structure of Yablo’s paradox is analysed and generalised in order to show that beginningless step-by-step determination processes can be used to provoke antinomies, more concretely, to make our logical and our ontological intuitions clash. The flow of time and the flow of causality are usually conceived of as intimately intertwined, so that temporal causation is the very paradigm of a step-by-step determination process. As a consequence, the paradoxical nature of beginningless step-by-step determination processes concerns time and causality as usually conceived.</p></abstract>

The structure of Yablo’s paradox is analysed and generalised in order to show that beginningless step-by-step determination processes can be used to provoke antinomies, more concretely, to make our logical and our ontological intuitions clash. The flow of time and the flow of causality are usually conceived of as intimately intertwined, so that temporal causation is the very paradigm of a step-by-step determination process. As a consequence, the paradoxical nature of beginningless step-by-step determination processes concerns time and causality as usually conceived.

Yablo’s Paradox and Beginningless Time

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The structure of Yablo’s paradox is analysed and generalised in order to show that beginningless step-by-step determination processes can be used to provoke...

Yablo’s Paradox and Beginningless Time

Published Online: Dec 31, 2018

Page range: 89 - 96

Received: May 19, 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/disp-2009-0002

Keywords
Antinomy, circularity, ungroundedness, determination structure, recursion

© 2009 Laureano Luna, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Yablo’s Paradox and Beginningless Time

Published Online: Dec 31, 2018

Page range: 89 - 96

Received: May 19, 2009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/disp-2009-0002

KeywordsAntinomy, circularity, ungroundedness, determination structure, recursion

© 2009 Laureano Luna, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
Antinomy, circularity, ungroundedness, determination structure, recursion