Sentence examples for a future contingent from inspiring English sources

A company commits itself to a future contingent payment but does not account for the liability.

A is known by God (and let A be a future contingent).

Instead, they have looked for a theoretical basis on which we might hold that a future contingent is true (or false).

If the sentence is a future contingent, the truth value determined at a later time has no bearing on the correctness of the utterance.

There are several ways to try to resolve the problem of prophecy, which arises in cases where a future contingent event is predicted.

But, where p is a proposition about a future contingent it is not true, whether the contingent state of affairs comes about or not; neither is its negation true; so the disjunction, "p or not-p" is not true.

So one possible response to the difficulty here is simply to give up one half of the problem by denying that there are any future contingent events.

The guiding idea behind Grosseteste's approach to a notion of non-temporal contingency is that even if a proposition such as "Antichrist will exist" (to use his standard example of a true, future contingent proposition) is true now and cannot become false until Antichrist comes into existence, the world might nevertheless have been such that "Antichrist will exist" was never true.

Today, with 7,000 Nauruans inhabiting the island's green skirt -- and with an economic future contingent upon Western desire for limestone coffee tables -- I gingerly asked the president what might happen to the people on Nauru in the next 10 years.

A possible third position would be to maintain that all future contingents are true.

This technique involved adding back to income money that had been set aside previously as a reserve to pay future contingent liabilities.