The Future - An Essay on God, Temporality and Truth |
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Lucas (J.R.) |
Source: Lucas - The Future - An Essay on God, Temporality and Truth |
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ContentsPreface
… i Conjugation – 14
… ii Simple Tenses – 17
… iii Reichenbach's Reference Point – 18
… iv Future Forms – 25
… i The Problem – 30
… ii Knowledge and Necessity – 34
… iii Necessitas Consequentis – 36
… iv Necessitas Consequentiae – 40
… v Defeasibility – 44
… vi Foreknowledge and Fallibility – 48
… vii Foreknowledge and Foretruth – 53
… i The Many Faces of Truth – 55
… ii Bearers of Truth – 62
… iii Conjectures and Predictions – 65
… iv Bivalence – 72
… i Syntactic Approach – 79
… ii Semantic Approach – 90
… iii Kripke Semantics – 92
… iv Prior's Tense Logic – 93
… v Critique of Prior's Tense Logic – 98
… i Syntax – 104
… ii Semantics – 115
… i Syntactic Approach – 119
… ii Timeless Truth – 125
… iii Guestimates – 128
… iv Argument – 132
… i Tree Shapes – 135
… ii Formalities – 139
… iii Tree Satisfaction and Temporal Truth – 145
… iv The Logic of Temporal Standpoints – 149
… v Temporal Modalities2 – 152
… vi Moods and Tenses – 154
… vii Critique – 158
… i Actuality – 161
… ii White Now – 162
… iii Branches – 166
… iv Sub-trees – 170
… v The Sea Battle – 173
… vi Modal3 Vacuity of the Actual – 175
… vii Temporal Truth – 176
… viii Defeasible Truth – 177
… ix Conclusion – 180
… i Time and Modality5 – 182
… ii Transitivity of the Future – 184
… iii Linearity of the Past – 184
… iv Non-linearity of the Future – 189
… v Homogeneity and Uniqueness – 190
… vi The Maturation of Possibility – 193
… vii The Topology of Time – 201
… viiii Possible Worlds versus Actual Time – 206
… i Theology – 209
… ii Timelessness – 211
… iii Changelessness – 214
… iv Eternity – 216
… v Foreknowledge and Forebelief – 221
… vi Perfection – 225
… vii Providence – 227
… viii Vulnerability and Value – 231
Index – 234.
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