Timeline for Problem with propositions about future
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| Aug 2, 2021 at 5:11 | answer | added | Dayv87 | timeline score: 0 | |
| Aug 15, 2018 at 3:46 | answer | added | Thor | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 14, 2018 at 20:36 | comment | added | David Thornley | For (3), even without free will we can have unpredictability. Quantum mechanics is stochastic, for example. Given a radioactive sample that emits an average of ten alpha particles per second, we can describe the probability of any given measurement in any given second, but we can't predict whether ten or more or nine or fewer alpha particles will be emitted. | |
| Aug 14, 2018 at 17:38 | answer | added | present | timeline score: 1 | |
| Oct 26, 2017 at 9:20 | comment | added | user20253 | I'd say that future contingents have no truth value. They are speculations. | |
| Oct 25, 2017 at 19:28 | answer | added | Logikal | timeline score: 3 | |
| Oct 25, 2017 at 19:07 | comment | added | Conifold | Such propositions are known as future contingents and SEP has long articles that addressing all these issues, see Future Contingents and Logical Fatalism. Could you focus your question more narrowly? Our policy is one question per question. | |
| Oct 25, 2017 at 17:58 | history | asked | Uğur Erdem Seyfi | CC BY-SA 3.0 |