Future Contingents, Non-Contradiction and the Law of Excluded Middle Muddle

C. Bourne

doi:10.1111/j.1467-8284.2004.00471.x

Future Contingents, Non-Contradiction and the Law of Excluded Middle Muddle

C. Bourne

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Abstract

I show how to hold the view that future contingents are not either true or false without having to reject either the law of excluded middle or the law of non-contradiction. This is achieved without resorting to non-truth-conditional logical connectives. In these ways it improves on the approaches taken by Lukasiewicz and Tooley.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	122-128
Journal	Analysis
Volume	64
Issue number	282
Early online date	16 Mar 2004
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8284.2004.00471.x
Publication status	Published - Apr 2004

Keywords

future
contingent
excluded middle
non-contradiction
Aristotle
Lukasiewicz
Tooley
negation
non-classical logic
bivalence

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