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I Was Right!

1) The puzzle of the future contingents is not limited only to the truth values of statements about future contingent events. It is a widespreaded phenomenon. It includes decisions, promises, investments, births, beginnings (wars, friendships, epochs, etc), consequentialist justification of our actions, assesments of good life, post-mortal harms, etc. 2) Being right and being true are relational properties. They are not intrinsic properties of our decisions and statements. 3) Things and events can acquire their relational properties later. This is the sense in which properties can “travel back in time.” Things and events must have their intrinsic properties at the time of their occurence, but they can acquire their relational properties later. 4) Causal determinism is not strong enough to provide truth for the future contingents. Consequently, the idea of a thin red line is not strong enough to make future contingents true. The idea of tensed truthmakers is also not strong enough for this purpose. Only realism about the future can make future contingents true before corresponding events happen but this view seems very implausible. 5) In the contexts where our decisions and statements are about the future events, expressions like was right, was true, and knew cannot be taken at face value. Although they can be good enough for the everyday communication, strictly speaking, they have to be reinterpreted according to the proposed analysis.

Future Contingents, Moral Luck, Time, Truth

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