{"title":"The Certaintists","authors":"G. S. Morson","doi":"10.1353/lit.2021.0021","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"We see that both deliberation and action are causative with regard to the future, and that, to speak more generally . . . there is a potentiality in either direction. Such things may either be or not be; events also therefore may either take place or not take place. . . . It is therefore plain that it is not of necessity that everything is or takes place; but in some instances there are real alternatives. —Aristotle, “On Interpretation”","PeriodicalId":44728,"journal":{"name":"COLLEGE LITERATURE","volume":"48 1","pages":"575 - 592"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2021-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"COLLEGE LITERATURE","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lit.2021.0021","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LITERATURE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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We see that both deliberation and action are causative with regard to the future, and that, to speak more generally . . . there is a potentiality in either direction. Such things may either be or not be; events also therefore may either take place or not take place. . . . It is therefore plain that it is not of necessity that everything is or takes place; but in some instances there are real alternatives. —Aristotle, “On Interpretation”