[Revised entry by Gloria Frost and Simo Knuuttila on April 9, 2025.
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The philosophical debate concerning the truth-value of singular statements about future contingents derives from Chapter 9 of Aristotle’s treatise De interpretatione (Peri hermeneias). In Chapters 7 – 8, Aristotle deals with the contradictory pairs of assertoric statements which divide truth and falsity so that one is true and the other is false. In Chapter 9 he raises the question of whether this holds for all assertoric statements or whether there might be an exception concerning…
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