Explore: Future Contingents (logic)

Future contingent propositions (or simply, future contingents) are statements about states of affairs in the future that are contingent: neither necessarily

determinism only by claiming future contingent statements are neither true nor false. This reading of Aristotle regards future contingents as simply disqualified

philosophical logic to address the question of which natural-language statements have a well-defined truth value. Sentences that predict events in the future, and

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logic was not applicable to future contingents, e.g. the statement "There will be a sea battle tomorrow". In other words, statements about the future

Modal logic is a kind of logic used to represent statements about necessity and possibility. In philosophy and related fields it is used as a tool for

with the problem of future contingents, where he could not accept that the principle of bivalence applies to statements about future events, i.e. that we

logic tradition until the 20th century, consistently using the law of the excluded middle while acknowledging his concerns about future contingents.

most notable for logic innovations, including his master argument formulated in response to Aristotle's discussion of future contingents. Diodorus was the

who discussed the topics of future contingents, the number and relation of the categories, the relation between logic and grammar, and non-Aristotelian