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3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 10. Making Future Truths

[how truths about the future can be made true now]

5 ideas
It is necessary that either a sea-fight occurs tomorrow or it doesn't, though neither option is in itself necessary [Aristotle]
The causes of future true events must exist now, so they will happen because of destiny [Chrysippus, by Cicero]
Future events are true if one day we will say 'this event is happening now' [Carneades]
We say future things are true that will possess actuality at some following time [Carneades, by Cicero]
In the tenseless view, all times are equally real, so statements of the future have truth-values [Le Poidevin]