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- Title
Knowledge of future contingents.
- Authors
Iacona, Andrea
- Abstract
This paper addresses the question whether future contingents are knowable, that is, whether one can know that things will go a certain way even though it is possible that things will not go that way. First I will consider a long-established view that implies a negative answer, and draw attention to some endemic problems that affect its credibility. Then I will sketch an alternative line of thought that prompts a positive answer: future contingents are knowable, although our epistemic access of them is limited in some important respects.
- Subjects
FUTURE contingents (Logic); INDETERMINISM (Philosophy); THEORY of knowledge; ASSERTIVENESS (Psychology); TRUTHFULNESS &; falsehood
- Publication
Philosophical Studies, 2022, Vol 179, Issue 2, p447
- ISSN
0031-8116
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11098-021-01666-5