Los futuros contingentes en Roberto Grosseteste, con una traducción inédita de su De veritate propositionis.

Abstract

future contingents, fatalism, Aristotle.

This paper is a brief introduction to the short treatise De veritate propositionis by Robert Grosseteste (XIIIth century), accompanied by an unpublished translation of the treatise, available in Spanish for the first time. In there Grosseteste comments on the problem of future contingents as it was raised by Aristotle in On Interpretation, chapter IX. Solutions due to Aristotle and Grosseteste are similar, although Grosseteste’s notion of necessity rests upon eternity rather than temporality.