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    It is not the case that If a proposition about the future is true, it is true immutably and inevitably

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    • 1.A proposition can be true at one time and false at another if the future it describes is genuinely open and contingent.
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    • 2.William of Ockham argued that future contingent propositions lack determinate truth values, making immutability inapplicable to them.
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    • 3.If 'Socrates will run' has no fixed truth value until the event occurs, the inference to immutability presupposes what it must prove.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Aristotle's sea-battle argument in De Interpretatione 9 establishes that bivalence need not apply to future contingent statements.
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    • 2.If future contingents are neither determinately true nor false, then a true future proposition cannot be immutably true, since its truth status is itself unsettled.
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    • 1.If 'Socrates will run' is true, no instant can be found when it would be false
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    • 2.A proposition that cannot be false at any instant is immutably true
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