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A future event is uncertain and contingent. Since the age of Aristotle, this feature induces philosophical issues like the Master argument. In this paper, we propose to suggest interpreting future contingents, not as Aristotle did, as gappy, but as glutty in some sense using Priest’s dialectical tense logic DTL, which is a version of paraconsistent tense logic.
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Akama, S., Murai, T., Kudo, Y. (2010). Uncertainty in Future: A Paraconsistent Approach. In: Huynh, VN., Nakamori, Y., Lawry, J., Inuiguchi, M. (eds) Integrated Uncertainty Management and Applications. Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, vol 68. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11960-6_31
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