Sentence examples for future facts from inspiring English sources

Is the future definite, then, and not contingent, since the gods know future facts in a definite manner?

It is easy to convince oneself, then, that future facts of those two sorts can not really be part of the existing.

Future facts that do depend upon human choice or quantum measurement, should they be facts now, would seem to constrain human choice or quantum measurement in ways that many philosophers find undesirable.

It's easy to get confused because determinism is often formulated in a loose and misleading way, e.g. as the thesis that facts about the past metaphysically determine or necessitate or "fix" all future facts.

Thus, the pragmatic thesis that normative statements are empirical appraisals that are open to confirmation by future consequences is not refuted by Stevenson's identification of disagreement in attitude, since the discovery of future facts may bring about a change in attitude.

So, on a B-theory, there can be future facts to make propositions about the future true; but, on an A-theory of type 1, a proposition about the future can be made true only by present and past facts together with timeless facts; and, on an A-theory of type 2, propositions both about the future and about the past, can be made true only by present facts together with timeless facts.

Creating the toxic political environment that has allowed Brexit to become future fact is an almost unquantifiable failure to do so.

He allows Mountstuart's voice to age like port: the precocious schoolboy blithely speculates that the "announcement of a future fact has a tenuous hold on the present moment," while the adult reflects, "It's always hard trying to imagine the loss of something you never had".

The workforce crisis is a future fact.

This is a future fact, a "Hard Trend".

For example, saying that Baby Boomers will age is a Hard Trend--it will happen; it's a future fact.