Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Preface
- List of Conventions and Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Background
- Part II The Road to Selection Semantics
- Part III Developing Selection Semantics
- Part IV Assertion, Prediction, and the Future
- 9 On Predicting
- 10 Assertion Troubles
- 11 Thin Red Lines without Tears
- Part V Future Cognition and Epistemology: Some Themes
- Bibliography
- Index
10 - Assertion Troubles
from Part IV - Assertion, Prediction, and the Future
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 June 2021
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Preface
- List of Conventions and Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Background
- Part II The Road to Selection Semantics
- Part III Developing Selection Semantics
- Part IV Assertion, Prediction, and the Future
- 9 On Predicting
- 10 Assertion Troubles
- 11 Thin Red Lines without Tears
- Part V Future Cognition and Epistemology: Some Themes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Chapter 10 argues that the Aristotelian conception of indeterminacy of the future is incompatible with the ordinary fact that we assert contingent facts about the future.
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- The Modal FutureA Theory of Future-Directed Thought and Talk, pp. 190 - 207Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021