The epistemic status of propositions of future events

• Authors: Ukagba George , Odia Sylvester Idemudia
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The advent of society with its built in idea of progress by collective effort has led to tremendous human growth and development. Our today is more of our planned yesterday rather than by accident of nature. In spite of the vast unknown future before us, our today is largely as planned yesterday. To this extent we can say we know tomorrow taken as our planned and determined-to-achieve future. We know when to guess and make predictions of the future. We also know what we want our future to be and how to work towards realizing it. As humans we keep learning and broadening our horizons. Though today is to a large extent as we planned of it yesterday, we will still find room for improvement. This should not be taken to mean that we did not know today as planned from yesterday. It is human to want something better. So we have knowledge of our planned and determined-to-achieve future events in so far as we do not have at the moment any reason to think otherwise.

Keywords

EN

future; truth; correspondence theory; idea of progress

• Publisher: Bialystok University Press
• Journal: IDEA. Studia nad strukturą i rozwojem pojęć filozoficznych
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 26
• Pages: 393-405

Contributors

author

Ukagba George

author

Odia Sylvester Idemudia

• Dr George Ukagba PhD, Sylvester Idemudia Odia – Department of Philosophy and Religions, Faculty of Arts, University of Benin, Nigeria