Indeterminist time and truth‐value gaps<sup>1</sup>

Thomason, Richmond H.

doi:10.1111/j.1755-2567.1970.tb00427.x

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“…This gives us a supervaluational semantics along the lines of Thomason (1970). An occurrence of (12) Sunny(tomorrow)…”

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Truth in the Garden of Forking Paths

MacFarlane¹

2008

Relative Truth

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Many philosophers have supposed that if possible worlds overlap and branch (as opposed to having qualitatively identical pasts and then ‘diverging’), our common-sense talk about the future is deeply misguided. Some of them plump for common sense, others for branching. This chapter argues that the dilemma is a false one. It is possible to develop a semantics for tense and the historical modalities that vindicate common-sense talk about the future, actuality, and historical possibility, even if there is branching. However, this can only be done in a semantic framework that relativizes truth to contexts of assessment.

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“…This gives us a supervaluational semantics along the lines of Thomason (1970). An occurrence of (12) Sunny(tomorrow)…”

Section: Supervaluationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Truth in the Garden of Forking Paths

MacFarlane¹

2008

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“…It also needs to be said, however, that all parts of ''tense logic'' become sensitive to subtleties in the presence of indeterminism and need to be treated with delicacy. Consider that the first inkling of a language proper to ''branching time'' was the insightful (but casual) representation of indeterminism in Prior (1957), and that only in Thomason (1970Thomason ( , 1984 was tense logic accurately and rigorously adapted to indeterminism. Thomason himself let his theories lie fallow until 1984, and then yet another batch of years elapsed before much further work was done on the philosophical side of branching-time theory.…”

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Propensities and probabilities

Belnap¹

2007

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in

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Popper's introduction of ''propensity'' was intended to provide a solid conceptual foundation for objective single-case probabilities. By considering the partly opposed contributions of Humphreys and Miller and Salmon, it is argued that when properly understood, propensities can in fact be understood as objective single-case causal probabilities of transitions between concrete events. The chief claim is that propensities are well-explicated by describing how they fit into the existing formal theory of branching space-times, which is simultaneously indeterministic and causal. Several problematic examples, some commonsense and some quantum-mechanical, are used to make clear the advantages of invoking branching space-times theory in coming to understand propensities. r

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“…Prior's theory of indeterminism, set out in his [26] and developed in more detail by Thomason [33], is based on a picture of moments as ordered into a treelike structure, with forward branching representing the openness or indeterminacy of the future and the absence of backward branching representing the determinacy of the past.…”

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Perspectival Act Utilitarianism

Horty

2010

Dynamic Formal Epistemology

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Indeterminist time and truth‐value gaps¹

Cited by 365 publications

References 6 publications

Truth in the Garden of Forking Paths

Truth in the Garden of Forking Paths

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Perspectival Act Utilitarianism

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