Bivalence and Future Contingency

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Authors
Publication date 2018
Host editors
  • S.O. Hansson
  • V.F. Hendricks
Book title Introduction to Formal Philosophy
ISBN
  • 9783319774336
ISBN (electronic)
  • 9783319774343
Series Springer Undergraduate Texts in Philosophy
Chapter 16
Pages (from-to) 333-347
Number of pages 15
Publisher Cham: Springer
Organisations
  • Interfacultary Research - Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC)
Abstract
This work presents an overview of four different approaches to the problem of future contingency and determinism in temporal logics. All of them are bivalent, viz. they share the assumption that propositions concerning future contingent facts have a determinate truth-value (true or false). We introduce Ockhamism, Peirceanism, Actualism and T × W semantics, the four most relevant bivalent alternatives in this area, and compare them from the point of view of their expressiveness and their underlying metaphysics of time.
Document type Chapter
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77434-3_16
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