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The root of the question is Aristotle's discussion of singular future statements in De interpretatione 9 which the eleventh-century dialecticians read in Boethius's Latin translation.
Aristotle speaks about singular future possibilities which may be realized or remain unrealized and which may or may not cease to be antecedent possibilities.
Early medieval logicians could deal with singular future statements as statement types with truth-values changing in accordance with the time of assertion, as in Aristotle and Hellenistic philosophy.
In Chapter 9 he raises the question of whether this holds for all assertoric statements or whether there might be an exception with respect to statements about singular future events or states of affairs which are neither necessary nor impossible and hence may take place, or may not.
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The philosophical debate concerning the truth-value of singular statements about future contingents derives from Chapter 9 of Aristotle's treatise De interpretatione (Peri hermeneias).
What has been called the 'standard interpretation' holds that Aristotle thought that, unlike such sentences about the past or present, sentences asserting future singular contingent facts are neither true nor false, exempting them from the principle of bivalence and avoiding the alleged deterministic consequence that contingency and chance are destroyed.
Although experts and researchers commonly rely on historical data to develop a singular view of the future, [42] underlines how when predicting the future uncertainty plays a major role.
With the daily fight for survival abated, you could either reminisce about the past or face the singular destiny of the future.
The current Mac Pro was introduced as a machine that would fit a variety of needs, that could be updated as those needs expanded and that offered a fairly singular vision of the future of pro desktop computers.
"A singular consciousness represents the future of technology," the timeline informed readers.
Each verb was presented in two different verbal forms of Italian language: at the second singular personal of the future tense (i.e. "scriverai", you will write"); at the second singular personal of the past tense (i.e. "scrivevi", you wrote).
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