We used an actuarial approach because it allows for multiple interrelated assumptions around various aspects of risks for a set of contingent future events to determine the most reasonable time value of money for different stakeholders [ 14].
Ockham had not adopted the terminology of "indeterminately true or false" and "contingently true or false" to speak of the truth status of future contingent propositions.
§2 explores in further detail the possible characterizations of LNC and LEM, including the relevance of future contingent statements in which LEM (but not LNC) is sometimes held to fail.
These engage with massively plural and diverse items in ourselves, in others, in myriad aspects of the non-human world, and in the infinities of contingent future possibility.
We direct our richly various mental lives – our beliefs, musings, intentions, enthusiasms, hopes, aspirations, and so on and on – at massively plural and diverse items in ourselves, in others, in myriad aspects of the non-human world, and in the infinities of contingent future possibility.
Instead, future tax brackets and rates should be contingent on the extent of future inequality.
Years later, he taught his children that actuaries "predict the present financial implications of future contingent events".
However, this entry is confined to the study of future contingent statements.
Logical determinism, therefore, is to be avoided by qualifying the truth-values of future contingent propositions.
The difference is that while the truth of other statements is necessary, the truth of future contingent predictions is not yet similarly determined.
