Time and truth: on the relationship between some metaphysical and semantic theses
Keywords:
Future Contingents, Eternalism, Determinism, Principle of Bivalence
Abstract
In this article, I try to identify the right connexion between some metaphysical theses (eternalism and determinism) and some semantic theses (closed and open future). Having established that, I will then posit two principles (Metaphysical-Semantical Determination Principle and Semantical-Metaphysical Indetermination Principle), making them available to philosophical debates, such as the debate about future contingents and its variants. The principles in question summarize the contribution that the relations between those theses can offer when well established. We will eventually see that we cannot deduce those metaphysical theses from the semantic theses in question, although we can move from the metaphysical theses to the semantic theses.
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Rea, Michael (2006). «Presentism and Fatalism». Australasian Journal of Philosophy 84, no. 4: pp. 511–524. https://doi.org/10.1080/00048400601079003
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Schlick, Moritz (1954). «Die Kausalitaet in der gegenwartigen Physik». Naturwissenschaften 19: pp. 145–162. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01516406
Sehon, Scott (2011). «A flawed conception of determinism in the Consequence Argument». Analysis 71, no. 1: pp. 30–38. https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/anq117
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2018-12-31
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Marques, E. 2018. Time and truth: on the relationship between some metaphysical and semantic theses. Disputatio. 7, 8 (Dec. 2018), a001. DOI:https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2550524.
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