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[from 'Intro to 'Questions of Time and Tense'' by Robin Le Poidevin, in 3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 10. Making Future Truths ]

Full Idea

The tenseless stance is quite clear: all times are equally real, so there are truth-makers for the future-tense statements, which consequently have determinate truth-values.

Gist of Idea

In the tenseless view, all times are equally real, so statements of the future have truth-values

Source

Robin Le Poidevin (Intro to 'Questions of Time and Tense' [1998], Intro)

Book Reference

'Questions of Time and Tense', ed/tr. Le Poidevin,R [OUP 2002], p.2


A Reaction

The tenseless view is linked to the B-series view, and to eternalism. This seems to mean that Aristotle took a tensed A-series view of time.