Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.26362/20190110

I Was Right!

Boran Berčić orcid.org/0000-0002-6866-9136 ; Department of Philosophy at the Faculty for Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Rijeka, Sveučilišna avenija 4, HR-51000 Rijeka, Croatia

Abstract

In this article author discusses the problem of the future contingents. He wants to show that the same problem holds for a number of related cases like decisions, promises, beginnings, birth dates, moral luck, post-mortal harms, etc. The focus of the article is on the question of when and how statements about the future acquire their truth values. Author argues that truth is a relational property that statements acquire when the events that they talk about occur. For this reason, the meanings of statements like I was right! or I knew! should not be taken at their face value but rather reinterpreted according to the proposed theory. Also, several other accounts are criticised and rejected: causal determinism, thin red line, eternalism and realism about the future.

Keywords

Cambridge change, determinism, fatalism, future contingents, intrinsic properties, moral luck, open future, realism about the future, relational properties, sea battle.

Hrčak ID:

237870

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/237870

Publication date:

27.12.2019.

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