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and Late Birth of the Free-Will
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is "the first full-scale modern study of the theory ". "It explores ... the views of the Stoics on causality, fate, the modalities, divination, rational agency, the non-futility of action, moral responsibility, formation of character". In this book and in her articles "The
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is the first monograph on Stoic modal logic. In her paper "Stoic
Syllogistic" Bobzien sets out the evidence for Stoic syllogistic. She argues that this should not be assimilated into standard propositional calculus, but treated as a distinct system which bears important similarities to
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In the 2021 extended essay "Frege plagiarized the Stoics", based on her 2016 Keeling
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Bobzien's "Die
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213:, context sensitivity, and assessment sensitivity. On this basis she proposes the modal logic S4.1 as governing the truth operator and offers a revenge-free solution to the liar paradox that relates to Herzberger's
130:." It differentiates the main functions of Kant's Categories of Freedom: as conditions of the possibility for actions (i) to be free, (ii) to be comprehensible as free and (iii) to be morally evaluated.
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and Galen's representation of peripatetic hypothetical syllogistic, and shown these differ from stoic syllogistic and contemporary propositional logic.
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