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Future Contradictions
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Beall, Jc, Future Contradictions, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 90, (3) pp. 547-557. ISSN 0004-8402 (2012) [Refereed Article]
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Copyright 2012 Australasian Association of Philosophy
DOI: doi:10.1080/00048402.2011.608370
Abstract
A common and much-explored thought is Lukasiewicz’s idea that the future is
‘indeterminate’ – a future which is ‘gappy’ with respect to some claims – and
that such indeterminacy bleeds back into the present in the form of gappy ‘future
contingent’ claims. What is uncommon, and to my knowledge unexplored, is the
dual idea of an overdeterminate future – a future which is ‘glutty’ with respect
to some claims. While the direct dual, with future gluts bleeding back into the
present, is worth noting, my central aim is simply to sketch and briefly explore
an alternative glutty-future view, one that is conservative – indeed, entirely
classical – with respect to the present.
The structure of the paper runs as follows. §1 briefly sketches the target
gap picture of an indeterminate future yielding gappy claims at the present.
§2 presents the direct dual idea – a glut picture of an overdeterminate future
yielding glutty claims at present. §3 sketches the central idea, a more interesting
glut picture in which the future contains contradictory states but the present
remains entirely classical. §4 contains a general defense of the idea, leaving it
open as to whether the gappy-future view enjoys substantive virtues over the
proposed glutty-future view of §3.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Research Division: | Philosophy and Religious Studies |
Research Group: | Philosophy |
Research Field: | Logic |
Objective Division: | Expanding Knowledge |
Objective Group: | Expanding knowledge |
Objective Field: | Expanding knowledge in philosophy and religious studies |
UTAS Author: | Beall, Jc (Professor JC Beall) |
ID Code: | 100106 |
Year Published: | 2012 |
Web of Science® Times Cited: | 3 |
Deposited By: | School of Humanities |
Deposited On: | 2015-05-01 |
Last Modified: | 2017-12-14 |
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