ERC Starting Grant · 2025
Medieval philosophical and scientific language, for many centuries and across different traditions, has been overcrowded with entities and scenarios that are – or were thought to be – fictitious or utterly impossible. These are entities like chimeras, flying men, golden mountains, but also atoms, infinite lines, bodies moving in a void space or at an infinite speed. Incorporating these impossibilities in standard theories of inference, showing how impossible statements can be manageable through valid reasoning while producing interesting conclusions, is one of the greatest achievements of the medieval thought. FICTA proposes an innovative, comparative and interdisciplinary approach to…
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