Sentence examples for future contingent from inspiring English sources
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.
A company commits itself to a future contingent payment but does not account for the liability.
Years later, he taught his children that actuaries "predict the present financial implications of future contingent events".
Some logicians have held that no future contingent is true.
In the opinion of Kilvington, future contingent events are such because God knows that they are future contingent and not vice versa.
Boethius's formulations often suggest that future contingent propositions are true-or-false.
In a deterministic world there are no future contingent statements in this sense.
On the other hand, future contingent propositions were treated as true or false in Stoic logic.
However, this entry is confined to the study of future contingent statements.
Anselm thought that future contingent statements based on divine revelation were true without deterministic implications.
Logical determinism, therefore, is to be avoided by qualifying the truth-values of future contingent propositions.
