The Truth About the Past and the Future
In Fabrice Correia & Andrea Iacona (eds.), Around the Tree: Semantic and Metaphysical Issues Concerning Branching Time and the Open Future. Springer (forthcoming)
| Abstract | This paper is about The Truthmaker Problem for Presentism. I spell out a solution to the problem that involves appealing to indeterministic laws of nature and branching semantics for past- and future-tensed sentences. Then I discuss a potential glitch for this solution, and propose a way to get around that glitch. Finally, I consider some likely objections to the view offered here, as well as replies to those objections. | |||||||||
| Keywords | Presentism Truthmakers Truthmaker problem Indeterminism branching semantics for past- and future-tensed sentences Open future Open past | |||||||||
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